Predict the top 6's transfer spend this summer

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Once again, it looks like we are going to have a blockbuster splurge in the PL.

How much do you think each of the top 6 will spend?

United - £230m

I seriously see us absolutely splurging this summer, particularly if we get CL. We will get rid of a few big earners too, which will help.

City - £150m

I have no idea what they are likely to do but they always spend a decent whack.

Chelsea - £150m

I think they will splash big on Lukaku to replace Costa, and a few additions.

Spurs - £50m

If that.

Arse - £0.000005m (50 pence).
 
Net?

United - £270m

City - £260m

Chelsea - £110m

Arsenal - £88m

Liverpool - £70m

Spurs - £52m
 
Gross or net? I'll go with gross:

United 200m

City 200m

Chelsea 180m

Pool 120m

Arsenal 100m

Spurs 70m
 
I think there may be a couple of teams spending over £200m this summer. Personally I think the premiership has been fairly poor at the top end for 5/6 years now. Up to the turn of the decade it was the best in Europe Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal were all doing very well in the champions league. Pretty much around the time City came in to the picture and Ronaldo left it has gone downhill. It is showing signs now of getting back up there, we have some fantastic managers but Im still left with the feeling there isnt one team I am confident of making a good run for winning the champions league as things stand. Chelsea are the closest, Liverpool and SPurs are miles away player wise but have fantastic managers getting the best out of sides with there pressing style. Arsenal really need to replace Wenger, he has lost the dressing room though I think the lack of respect he is getting is sad, he has been a fantastic servant to the premiership. But every side to me seems to have half a great side, City going forward are very good but in midfield and defence they have been on the whole woeful. I think as long as we get into the champions league it is the two Manchester clubs will break the £200m barrier with CHelsea spending just shy of £150m. I expect some big names coming to the top sides this summer with the managers that are at those clubs and I also expect all the premiership sides to spend a lot of money on the whole. If the clubs get the right players I think we may well be watching a top class premiership again next year for the first time in a long time, but they all have a lot of work to do, even SPurs and Chelsea
 
United £200m
City £200m
Chelsea £200m - Chinese money means they should have a big summer
Arsenal £150m - Biggest summer so far for them, should get rid of a lot of deadwood
Spurs £110m - New stadium but potential sales of Walker and Dier.
Liverpool £70m
 
Net spend, gross means little.

Arsenal - £250m, biggest spenders, Usmanov bid of £1b shows intent.
Chelsea - £200m, genuinely making their own money now, owner will chuck some more in.
City - £200m, have to beat Chelsea, they're on a road where they can't stop, for now.
United - £200m, we're desperate, the Glazers will know it.
Spurs - £80m, they will think they're so clever now they won't need to spend much.
Liverpool - £80m, owners only want to make money, as with Spurs they'll think it's easy, and they've done enough.
 
712 said:
Net spend, gross means little.

Arsenal - £250m, biggest spenders, Usmanov bid of £1b shows intent.
Chelsea - £200m, genuinely making their own money now, owner will chuck some more in.
City - £200m, have to beat Chelsea, they're on a road where they can't stop, for now.
United - £200m, we're desperate, the Glazers will know it.
Spurs - £80m, they will think they're so clever now they won't need to spend much.
Liverpool - £80m, owners only want to make money, as with Spurs they'll think it's easy, and they've done enough.
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I don't see anyone doing a NET £200m spend tbh

Us and Citeh will spend the most ~ £130-150m
Chelsea - £80m
Arsenal - £90m
Liverpool - £75m
Spurs - £60m
 
712 said:
Net spend, gross means little.

Arsenal - £250m, biggest spenders, Usmanov bid of £1b shows intent.
Chelsea - £200m, genuinely making their own money now, owner will chuck some more in.
City - £200m, have to beat Chelsea, they're on a road where they can't stop, for now.
United - £200m, we're desperate, the Glazers will know it.
Spurs - £80m, they will think they're so clever now they won't need to spend much.
Liverpool - £80m, owners only want to make money, as with Spurs they'll think it's easy, and they've done enough.
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Sssh ... some posters don't like to hear that.

I'd go with your figures, except much less for Arsenal (maybe 150m) and less for Spurs (30m - when did we last spend £80m net?)
 
Pexbo said:
Net?

United - £270m

City - £260m

Chelsea - £110m

Arsenal - £88m

Liverpool - £70m

Spurs - £52m
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Are you sure you haven't mixed up Net with gross? Even at Gross that's crazy high. 5 players say, each costing on average £54m? And if you really do mean Net then I wonder who you think we're going for.
 
I'll do gross

United - 200m
City - 200m
Chelsea - 150m
Arsenal - 100m
Liverpool - 100m
Tottenham - 60m

Somewhere around there.
 
Chelsea £185m (gross) £65m (net)
Spurs £105m (gross) £20m (net)
Man City £165m (gross) £85m (net)
Liv £110m (gross) £40m (net)
Ars £125m (gross) £65m (net)
Man United £195m (gross) £85m (net) - assumes De Gea goes for high fee

Fans and managers tend to be happy when the gross figures are high. Owners and chief execs relatively happy if the net figures are realistic, given their financial resources.

In the current market, getting £10m for a player currently out on loan or £20m for selling an unwanted squad player is possible. Buying anyone will be ridiculously expensive for the top 6.
 
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United 250m
City 300m
Chelsea 200m
Liverpool 150m
Arsenal 100m
Spurs 100m
 
Liverpool - 27p.
 
Chelsea 150
Man utd 170
City 200
Arsenal 120
Liverpool 90
Spurs 40-70

Net spend
 
kundalini said:
Chelsea £185m (gross) £65m (net)
Spurs £105m (gross) £20m (net)
Man City £165m (gross) £85m (net)
Liv £110m (gross) £40m (net)
Ars £125m (gross) £65m (net)
Man United £195m (gross) £85m (net) - assumes De Gea goes for high fee

Fans and managers tend to be happy when the gross figures are high. Owners and chief execs relatively happy if the net figures are realistic, given their financial resources.

In the current market, getting £10m for a player currently out on loan or £20m for selling an unwanted squad player is possible. Buying anyone will be ridiculously expensive for the top 6.
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Last summer the net spend was significantly higher. West Ham was actually fifth net spend, horrible season for them.
 
hellohello said:
Last summer the net spend was significantly higher. West Ham was actually fifth net spend, horrible season for them.
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Yes. I know.

My theory, which may be proved to be incorrect, has two parts to it. Part one: in the medium to longer term, most clubs want to behave in a financially responsible fashion, as the owners are in it for the money (clearly not true of Abramovich or Man City's owners). It is very easy to lose large amounts of money in this business. If you take a careful look at the financial accounts, they really don't justify the level of net spending we saw last summer. Part two: clubs are more willing to give new managers some financial leeway in year one but will expect them to make substantial sales in year 2. Last summer saw 3 new managers in the top 6 and Klopp who was still inside his first 12 months. This summer, it is just possible we will see a new manager at Arsenal, otherwise you'd expect to see the same set of managers start the season.

Some of the sales we saw in the winter transfer window, were moves that I imagine the chief execs had rather anticipated happening during the previous summer. Mourinho certainly had a bigger squad than he said he wanted and sure didn't act like he wanted to give Memphis or Schneiderlin a chance.
 
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kundalini said:
Yes. I know.

My theory, which may be proved to be incorrect, has two parts to it. Part one: in the medium to longer term, most clubs want to behave in a financially responsible fashion, as the owners are in it for the money (clearly not true of Abramovich or Man City's owners). It is very easy to lose large amounts of money in this business. If you take a careful look at the financial accounts, they really don't justify the level of net spending we saw last summer. Part two: clubs are more willing to give new managers some financial leeway in year one but will expect them to make substantial sales in year 2. Last summer saw 3 new managers in the top 6 and Klopp who was still inside his first 12 months. This summer, it is just possible we will see a new manager at Arsenal, otherwise you'd expect to see the same set of managers start the season.

Some of the sales we saw in the winter transfer window, were moves that I imagine the chief execs had rather anticipated happening during the previous summer. Mourinho certainly had a bigger squad than he said he wanted and sure didn't act like he wanted to give Memphis or Schneiderlin a chance.
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You may be right, and we will only know for sure after the summer, but I expect the Manchester Clubs to spend around the same if not more. Chelsea will probably spend more than they did, and I even expect arsenal to spend just shy of 100m. Liverpool I have no idea about, are they paying too much in wages compared to their income? Could mean they can't spend a lot on transfers, and Spurs, hmm, probably somewhere between 30 and 50m net, Levy will be willing to spend on younger players he sees as an 'investment' I feel, but I don't expect another Sissoko.
 
Net Spend in Pounds:
Liverpool 40m
City 140m
United 130m
Chelsea 50m
Arsenal 65m
Spurs 35m
 
I can see Utd City and Chelsea all at least gross £200 million, Utd maybe a bit higher, up to £225-250 million. This being that they will all be after the same players, the Mbappes, the Belottis, the Fabinhos etc, which will drive the prices up.
Arsenal and Liverpool will be around the £120-150 million.
I think Spurs will spend the least and wont break the £100 million barrier. I think Newcastle will vie with them to be the 6th highest spender.
Net spend is hard to call as you dont know how many players will go, as in Utds case we could do with quite a few leaving, but who would buy them for what we would want for them, and what team would pay their massive wages? For example, I can see us having to cover half of Rooneys wages as he (Coleen) would probably only want to go to Everton, and not China, the only other place where he might get similar wages.
 
Figures are really irrelevant at this stage with so many variables in the ins/outs department and like some have said previosuly, it's the NET spend that really counts. Spurs for example wouldn't splash out on players if they weren't sure of what they were going to recoup back. Same to a lesser extent with Liverpool and Arsenal.

Biggest net spenders will be:

1. Man United
2. Man City
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
5. Liverpool
6. Tottenham
 
712 said:
You're not used to your champions league status yet Glaston.
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It's the more the ongoing need to fund our new stadium methinks. Levy has been depressing our net transfer spend for years now in order to build up stadium funds and this will continue for a while yet.
 
GlastonSpur said:
It's the more the ongoing need to fund our new stadium methinks. Levy has been depressing our net transfer spend for years now in order to build up stadium funds and this will continue for a while yet.
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Ah, rightio, but if he takes qualifying for the champions league for granted then he might be in for a shock.
 
It all depends on who they sell, if Arsenal lose Sanchez or Liverpool lose Coutinho then their spending increases significantly. I think it's safe to say that United, City and Chelsea will be spending around £200m with the rest probably less than half of that.
 
Adisa said:
Who the feck are we signing that we face a net spend of 270m? :lol:
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It's the sales that are going to be an issue. Only really Smalling that could raise us anything. Rooney leaving could clear some space with the wages though but that won't be reflected in the net spend.

Out-
Smalling - £20m.

In-
Griezmann £90m
Bernardo Silva £60m
CM x 2 £40m/£60m
LB £25m
CB £30m


I guess De Gea could bring it down a fair bit. Woodward will be desperate not only for us to win the league but (if we win the final) challege in the UCL too.
 
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