Bundesliga only once in the top 25
Financially, the Premier League plays in a completely different dimension to other major European (Site notre bureau spécialisé) leagues – it’s no secret, but the differences in numbers are still remarkable. This winter that will become even clearer, especially through the shopping spree of Chelsea FC, who have so far invested 208.5 million euros in seven players and didn’t have enough by Tuesday’s deadline. In total, English Premier League teams paid out €583.06m for 42 players this year as of Monday evening, shortly after 8am. This broke the previous spending record for a league for a transfer window.
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Duranville to Mudryk: The most expensive winter transfers 2022/23
Julien Duranville | Anderlecht to BVB | Transfer fee: 8.5 million euros
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Josip Juranovic | Celtic in Union Berlin | Transfer fee: 8.55 million euros
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Jonah Omlin | Montpellier to Gladbach | Transfer fee: 9 million euros
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Evander | Midtjylland to Portland | Transfer fee: 9.5 million euros
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Jean-Victor Makengo | Udinese to Lorient | Transfer fee: 10 million euros
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Nicolas Ibanez | Pachuca to Tigers | Transfer fee: 10.1 million euros
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Antoine Semenyo | Bristol City to Bournemouth | Transfer fee: 10.25 million euros
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Amine Sarr | Heerenveen to Olympique Lyonnais | Transfer fee: 11 million euros
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Lyle Foster | KVC Westerlo to Burnley | Transfer fee: 11 million euros
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Mario Lemina | Nice to Wolverhampton | Transfer fee: 11 million euros
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Maxime Perrone | Velez Sarsfield to Man City | Transfer fee: 11 million euros
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Joao Felix | Atletico to Chelsea | Rental costs: 11 million euros
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Youssouf Ndayishimiye | Basaksehir to Nice | Transfer fee: 11.5 million euros
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David Datro Fofana | Molde to Chelsea | Transfer fee: 12 million euros
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Maximilian Woeber | Salzburg to Leeds | Transfer fee: 12 million euros
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Danny Ing | Aston Villa to West Ham | Transfer fee: 12 million euros
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Fernando Gorriarán | Santos Laguna in Tigres | Transfer fee: 12.2 million euros
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Andrei Santos | Vasco da Gama to Chelsea | Transfer fee: 12.5 million euros
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Alex Moreno | Betis to Aston Villa | Transfer fee: 13.5 million euros
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Carlos Alcaraz | Racing Club in Southampton | Transfer fee: 13.65 million euros
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Victor Kristiansen | Copenhagen to Leicester | Transfer fee: 14 million euros
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Andreas Schjelderup | Nordsjaelland to Benfica | Transfer fee: 14 million euros
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gerson | Ol.Marseille to Flamengo | Transfer fee: 15 million euros
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John Duran | Chicago to Aston Villa | Transfer fee: 16.64 million euros
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Joe Gomes | Flamengo in Wolverhampton | Transfer fee: 18.7 million euros
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danilo | Palmeiras to Nottingham | Transfer fee: 20 million euros
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Dango Ouattara | Lorient to Bournemouth | Transfer fee: 22.5 million euros
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Leandro Trossard | Brighton to Arsenal | Transfer fee: 24 million euros
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Jakub Kiwior | Special at Arsenal | Transfer fee: 25 million euros
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Georginio Rutter | Hoffenheim to Leeds | Transfer fee: 28 million euros
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Malo Gusto | Lyon to Chelsea | Transfer fee: 30 million euros
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Noni Madueke | PSV to Chelsea | Transfer fee: 35 million euros
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Benoit Badiashile | Monaco to Chelsea | Transfer fee: 38 million euros
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Cody Gakpo | PSV to Liverpool | Transfer fee: 42 million euros
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Anthony Gordon | Everton to Newcastle | Transfer fee: 45.6 million euros
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Unsurprisingly, the rankings so far top the English upper house: in 2017/18, €561.4m was spent on newcomers in January. At that time, for example, Chelsea brought in Olivier Giroud, Manchester City snapped up Aymeric Laporte and Liverpool FC made Virgil van Dijk the most expensive defender in (Site notre bureau spécialisé) history at the time.
The Premier League has found itself among the ten January transfer windows with the highest investment volume in a league seven times, and in 2021/22, 2019/20, 2016/17, 2015/16 and 2011/12 , more than 250 million euros have been invested. by English clubs issued. The Chinese Super League has also made the top five twice, with clubs spending €347.9m and €403.5m on the transfer market in 2016 and 2017, respectively. In China, however, the winter is comparable to the summer transfer window of the major European leagues, which is why higher investments are much more common there then, or during the short-term boom of this period.
In comparison: These players moved to the Premier League in winter 2022/23 / LaLiga in 2017/18 / Bundesliga in 2019/20
Also in the top 10 of spending in January: LaLiga 2017/18, where €288.7m sank for 62 players, €135m just for Philippe Coutinho’s transfer from Anfield Road to FC Barcelona. The most expensive Bundesliga year in terms of winter transfers was 2019/20, which is January before the pandemic. 208.4 million for 38 players like Erling Haaland, Dani Olmo or Edmond Tapsoba rank 13th in an international comparison.
Draxler to Coutinho: the most expensive winter transfers in history
28 – Julian Draxler at PSG
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2016/17 for 36 million euros from Wolfsburg
27 – Edin Dzeko at Manchester City
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2010/11 for 37 million euros from Wolfsburg
26 – Benedict Badiashile at Chelsea
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2022/23 for 38 M€ from AS Monaco
25 – Lucas Paqueta in Milan
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2018/19 for €38.4m from Flamengo
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2012/13 for 40 million euros from Sao Paulo
22 – Leandro Paredes at PSG
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2018/19 for 40 million euros from Zenit St. Petersburg
22 – Cedric Bakambu to BJ Gouan
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2017/18 for €40m from Villarreal
21 – Andy Carroll at Liverpool
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2010/11 for 41 million euros from Newcastle
18 – Cody Gakpo at Liverpool FC
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2022/23 for 42 million euros from PSV Eindhoven
18 – Jackson Martinez in Guangzhou
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2015/16 for €42m from Atlético
18 – Paulinho in Guangzhou
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2018/19 for 42 million euros from Barcelona
17 – Bruno Guimaraes at Newcastle United
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2021/22 for €42.1 million from Olympique Lyonnais
16 – Juan Mata at Manchester United
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2013/14 for 44.7 million euros from Chelsea
15 – Luis Diaz in Liverpool
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2021/22 for 45 million euros from FC Porto
14 – Anthony Gordon at Newcastle United
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2022/23 for €45.6m from Everton
13 – Alex Teixeira at Jiangsu Suning
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2015/16 for 50 million euros from Shakhtar
12 – Ferran Torres at FC Barcelona
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2021/12 for 55 million euros from Manchester City
11 – Fernando Torres at Chelsea
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2010/11 for 58.5 million euros from Liverpool
9 – Oscar in Shanghai SIPG
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2016/17 for 60 million euros from Chelsea
9 – Diego Costa at Atlético
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2017/18 for 60 million euros from Chelsea
8 – Bruno Fernandes at Manchester United
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2019/20 for 63 million euros from Sporting
7 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at Arsenal
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2017/18 for 63.8 million euros from Bor. Dortmund
6 – Christian Pulisic at Chelsea
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2018/19 for 64 million euros from Bor. Dortmund
5 – Aymeric Laporte at Manchester City
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2017/18 for 65 million euros from Bilbao
4 – Mykhaylo Mudryk at Chelsea
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2022/23 for 70 million euros from Shakhtar Donetsk
3 – Dusan Vlahovic at Juventus
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2021/22 for 81.6 million euros from Fiorentina
2 – Virgil van Dijk in Liverpool
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2017/18 for €84.7m from Southampton
1 – Philippe Coutinho in Barcelona
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2017/18 for 135 million euros from Liverpool
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