What current squads around Europe cost to assemble

GE said:
Spending bizarre amounts is the only way to bring success nowadays. But it's who you spend it on that matters.

It's a shame, because football is in a poor state. How on earth do we bring young English talent through? I watch my 10 year old brother travel up and down the country every week with his academy, and train 3 days a week after school, yet he probably has less than a 1% chance of making it to the Premier League. It's so sad... I hate the way football has become money driven.
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Given how simply being English can double a player's fee I don't think that developing players doesn't make sense financially for clubs. Because no one really seems to do it in England it's probably even a lot more beneficial for PL clubs than it is for their German or Spanish counter parts which focus on it heavily anyway.

evra said:
Unless you're talking net spend and include the wage bill any comparison is basically worthless.
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I definitely see the point in including wages, but why net spend? This diagram is (probably) designed to show you how effectively clubs spend their money, for that you don't need to know where it came from.
 
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Kag said:
This stuff is silly.

Quality coaching, clever signings, team cohesion, player confidence and a little bit of luck can't impact upon the success of top clubs? Well, it can.

Spending x amount of money on players won't bridge any gaps. A couple of better players in key positions would be ideal, but it's a small matter by comparison with the wider footballing set up in place at a club.

It's why Arsenal are competing with us with a cheaper squad, and why Newcastle remain terrible despite the eight highest outlay in the division.

We're a work in progress, more money will be spent, but it isn't the be all and end all.
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Well, they are about the 8th best team squad wise too. Maybe 10th.
 
Just to line up the sums of the first graphic in another way:

Europe’s top 10 squads

1. Real Madrid €587m
2. Manchester City €560m
3. Manchester United €533m
4. Paris St Germain €525m
5. Chelsea €407m
6. Barcelona €394m
7. Liverpool €344m
8. Bayern Munich €337m
9. Arsenal €305m
10. Juventus €301m

Compared to that the market value of the squads from transfermarkt.de
(here I am a little biased as I know how reluctant e.g. the German forum is to rise the value of some of the players whereas e.g. the spanish forum is different)

1 Real Madrid 715,50 Mio. €
2 FC Barcelona 657,50 Mio. €
3 FC Bayern München 559,10 Mio. €
4 FC Chelsea 531,75 Mio. €
5 Manchester City 480,85 Mio. €
6 FC Paris Saint-Germain 403,65 Mio. €
7 FC Arsenal 402,00 Mio. €
8 Juventus Turin 388,10 Mio. €
9 Manchester United 377,25 Mio. €
10 Atlético Madrid 340,50 Mio. €
11 FC Liverpool 330,25 Mio. €
12 Tottenham Hotspur 288,00 Mio. €
13 Borussia Dortmund 287,45 Mio. €
14 SSC Neapel 262,75 Mio. €
15 FC Valencia 262,50 Mio. €
16 AS Rom 258,85 Mio. €
17 Inter Mailand 238,98 Mio. €
18 VfL Wolfsburg 205,65 Mio. €
19 AC Mailand 203,75 Mio. €
20 FC Everton 194,30 Mio. €
 
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It kinda reflects how you would expect the teams to more or less finish once the season is over.
 
Sylar said:
It kinda reflects how you would expect the teams to more or less finish once the season is over.
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was going to say the same thing. the correlation, give or take a few outliers, is pretty uncanny.
 
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