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Omar Marmoush is among the 10 most expensive attacking signings in Premier League history.
Amir hagag Omar Marmoush, the Egyptian national team and Manchester City star, is among the top 10 most expensive attacking signings in Premier League history. According to the international website Transfermarkt, Omar Marmoush, the Egyptian national team star, is ranked sixth on the list of the top 10 most expensive attacking signings in Premier League history, having joined Manchester City during the last winter transfer window from Eintracht Frankfurt for €75 million. Romelu Lukaku topped the list of the 10 most expensive attacking signings in Premier League history, joining Chelsea from Inter Milan in 2021 for €113 million. Darwin Nunez came in second place after joining Liverpool from Benfica for €85 million in 2022. Romelu Lukaku again came in third place, this time after moving from Everton to Manchester United for €85 million in the 2017-18 season. The list of the most expensive strikers in Premier League history is as follows. read more Japan Stun Spain 2-1 to Qualify for World Cup Last 16 World Cup 2022: Get to Know Confirmed Line-ups of Japan and Spain Group E Decider Saudi Arabia Bid Farewell to World Cup after 2-1 Loss to Mexico Tunisia Achieve Historic Win over France but Fail to Qualify Tunisia to Clash against France in World Cup Sports Get to Know Squad of Group D Teams in World Cup Sports Al Ahly Gift EGP 70,000 to Players After Claiming Egyptian Super Cup Title Sports Bencharki Hits First 2 Goals with Al Jazira Since Leaving Zamalek Sports Arsenal Possible Line-up for Nottingham Forest News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt News "Tensions Escalate: Iran Probes Allegations of Indian Tech Collaboration with Israeli Intelligence" News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks Arts & Culture Hawass Foundation Launches 1st Course to Teach Ancient Egyptian Language Videos & Features Video: Trending Lifestyle TikToker Valeria Márquez Shot Dead during Live Stream Technology 50-Year Soviet Spacecraft 'Kosmos 482' Crashes into Indian Ocean
BBC News
a day ago
- Business
- BBC News
How Premier League spending compares with 50 days of window left
With 50 days to go until the Premier League transfer window closes, clubs have spent more money on transfers at this stage of a summer than ever from Transfermarkt, external shows that Premier League clubs have spent £1.03bn on players since the transfer window first opened at the start of highest figure, by this stage, had been the £800m spent in the summer of 2022."We noted a very obvious dip in spending after Covid but it would seem as though most Premier League clubs have overcome those difficulties and are now back to spending money with very little concern," said Transfermarkt's UK area manager Stefan is less than halfway to the record though, the £2.36bn paid by Premier League clubs in the summer of League clubs will be keen to complete their business as soon as possible for a number of reasons, including having their recruits for as much of the pre season as possible and avoiding the need for any last-minute panic buys. A unique window with early deals This has been an unusual transfer window... in that there have been two first opened between Sunday, 1 June and Tuesday, 10 June, because of an exceptional registration period relating to the Fifa Club World club within the 20 national associations competing in the United States could sign players as it was not only restricted only teams in the tournament - in the Premier League's case, Chelsea and Manchester then reopened on Monday, 16 June and will close again on Monday, 1 September. Fifa's 16-week limit on the length of transfer windows meant associations could not allow a recruitment period to run continuously through the summer if they wanted to end at the same time as other leagues who did not have representatives at the it meant plenty of big spending in the first 10 days of June, which has undoubtedly been a major factor to pushing collective spending beyond £1bn.A total of £400m was spent before the traditional transfer window even City paid about £108m to sign Rayan Cherki, Rayan Ait-Nouri and Tijjani spent £60m on Liam Delap, Mamadou Sarr and Dario Essugo before the tournament and another £60m on Joao Pedro before the have not been the only teams shelling out the cash this summer. Big deals being done but not the most ever - yet There have been nine Premier League transfers so far this summer for an initial fee of £40m or biggest one by far is the £100m up front Liverpool paid Bayer Leverkusen for Germany midfielder Florian is the joint second biggest British signing ever - and would break the record if the Reds ended up paying all the £17m second biggest signing this summer was the one first made as Manchester United bought £62.5m Wolves striker Matheus Cunha on 1 signing of Real Sociedad's Martin Zubimendi, Joao Pedro swapping Brighton for Chelsea, Tottenham bringing in West Ham's Mohammed Kudus and Newcastle's recruitment of Nottingham Forest's Anthony Elanga have all been in the £50m-60m other £40m+ moves are Chelsea's buying Jamie Gittens from Borussia Dortmund, Reijnders joining City from AC Milan and Liverpool's purchase of Bournemouth's Milos transfer to Newcastle on Friday night was the sixth in the Premier League for a fee of £55m or more during the current half-dozen deals all equal or eclipse the most expensive Premier League signing last summer, which was Dominic Solanke's move to Spurs from Bournemouth for an initial £55m. Who are the biggest spenders and who's yet to splash the cash? The two biggest spenders this summer have been Chelsea and Liverpool, including those deals put in place last have spent a combined £211m on Essugo, Delap, Sarr, Joao Pedro, Gittens, Estevao Willian and Kendry Paez - according to have shelled out £185m on Wirtz, Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong and Giorgi (£122m), Manchester City (£113m) and promoted Sunderland (£100m) are the other clubs in nine figures - including loans made five biggest signings ever have come this summer - headlined by £30m Habib Diarra from Strasbourg and £21m Simon Adingra from are the only Premier League club yet to sign a player this summer, but four players have left including Carlos Vinicius and Palace have only spent £2m - on Ajax defender Borna Sosa. Goalkeeper Walter Benitez joined on a free from of West Ham's two signings are new players for the first time. They are Jean-Clair Todibo, whose loan move from Nice was automatically made permanent because they avoided relegation, and teenager Daniel Cummings, who is joining their under-21 Villa's two signings are teenagers - Yasin Ozcan and Zepiqueno Redmond. How does it compare to foreign leagues? As always, Premier League clubs are spending more than their foreign top-flight clubs have exceeded the transfer investments of Serie A, Bundesliga and La Liga teams five teams in the world outside of England have bought a player as expensive as Sunderland's £30m Diarra this Madrid spent £50m on Bournemouth defender Dean Huijsen and £38.5m on River Plate midfielder Franco Mastantuono, and Atletico Madrid around £38m to bring in Alex Baena from Leverkusen used some of their Wirtz windfall to make the two biggest signings in their history - about £30m on Liverpool defender Jarell Quansah and the same for PSV midfielder Malik Tillman. How many inter-Premier League moves? The amount of Premier League to Premier League transfers so far is fairly similar to recent currently sits as 17% of Premier League signings this summer. Last season, including the winter and the summer, the total was 20%.In 2023-24 it was also 17%.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Feyenoord sign Groningen midfielder Valente on four-year deal
After much speculation, Feyenoord have completed the signing of Luciano Valente (21) from Groningen. The talented midfielder has signed a four-year contract at De Kuip and will join Robin van Persie's side in mid-July due to his participation in the European Championship with Jong Oranje. According to Transfermarkt, the fee is believed to be €6.75m. Advertisement 'Finally, it's official,' Valente said on the club's website. 'For me, and also for my family, there has always been only one option from the moment Feyenoord came forward. This is where I wanted to go. It took a while, but I'm happy that it's finally here.' Following his emergence at his hometown club, Valente made a total of 94 appearances for Groningen, in which he scored 10 goals and registered 17 assists. After playing a great part in the 'Pride of the North's' promotion push from the second tier (seven goals, seven assists), Valente made the step up and caught the eye last season in the Eredivisie, bagging two goals and registering another seven assists as Groningen finished 13th. GBeNeFN | Max Bradfield
New York Times
26-06-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Premier League clubs have the greatest spending power – but it comes at a cost…
This summer's transfer window has endured something of a sputtering start, owing to the newly-expanded Club World Cup. Ahead of the tournament's kick-off, clubs were granted an 'exceptional registration period' between 1 and 10 June. The window was then closed for five days before it opened rather more widely last Monday; Premier League clubs can now register new signings up to 7pm on Monday, 1 September. Advertisement Despite the disjointed beginnings, things quickly settled into a familiar rhythm and, as ever, Premier League clubs lead the way in spending. At the time of writing, according to Transfermarkt, England's top 20 clubs have already spent more than €760million (£648m) on new signings, more than double Italy's Serie A, the next highest-spending league. Plenty of deals have been all-domestic affairs; one Premier League club buying from another. But even accounting for those leaves the English top tier's net spend at €412m. No other league yet tops €100m. The reason for English clubs' preeminence in the transfer market is obvious: the size of the Premier League's TV deals. Based on figures detailed in UEFA's latest European Club Finance and Investment Landscape report, the combined annual worth of the latest TV deals for La Liga, the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 is €4.998billion. The Premier League's deal on its own for the coming season stands at €4.53bn — or 91 per cent of the rest of the 'big five' leagues combined. The actual proportion could be even higher, dependent on what happens in France this summer after the French league and broadcaster DAZN terminated their deal just one year into its five-year term. Mulling which league in world football boasts the greatest spending power this summer makes for neither lengthy nor novel conversation. It is, as it has been for a very long time, the Premier League. That remains true even after the recent rise to prominence of the Saudi Pro League. Since joining the elite transfer fray in the summer of 2023, Saudi Arabian clubs have spent at a level only the Premier League surpasses. Those same clubs benefit from near bottomless wealth and don't have to contend with the regulatory morass of English and European clubs, so there's a case to be made for the Saudi Arabian league sitting above all others. Yet much of that spending is concentrated at the four clubs the country's Public Investment Fund took control of in June 2023: Al Hilal, Al Nassr, Al Ahli and Al Ittihad account for around 85 per cent of Saudi club spending since then. On the contrary, Premier League clubs spend heavily across the board. Recently promoted (and swiftly relegated) Ipswich Town spent more than £100m last summer. Bournemouth, whose average home crowd only just tops 11,000, spent £271.1m across 2022-23 and 2023-24, recouping just £5.1m in the process. That gave them the fifth-highest net spend in England over that time. Advertisement The sway of English clubs has become all too obvious in recent years. Bournemouth's ability to coax Dean Huijsen from Juventus last summer was a pretty stark example of how a Premier League side's appeal now compares to some of Europe's most illustrious clubs. Huijsen has since been sold on to Real Madrid for more than triple what Bournemouth spent. Bournemouth plainly did well in that deal but there is a price to be paid, quite literally, for Premier League supremacy. The ignition of interest from England's shores alerts clubs to the possibility of a bumper payday — if Premier League clubs are interested, they can seek to push the price up. It is why, for example, Bayer Leverkusen could command a club-record fee from Liverpool for Florian Wirtz earlier this month. If Wirtz had admirers only from within Germany, or, worse still, only from leagues of lesser quality than the Bundesliga, Leverkusen would have found it much more difficult to summon up the €136m they ultimately got from Liverpool for Wirtz's services. That's a fairly obvious point to make, one which tacks to the simple law of supply and demand. There are few world-class footballers who will command the biggest fees. Wirtz might well prove worth the nine figures Liverpool have spent but transfers are hard to compare on a like-for-like basis because a whole array of circumstances dictate the size of the eventual fee. Does the seller need to sell? Is the buyer desperate? Does the player want to move? Nevertheless, in an attempt to bring some specificity and comparability to proceedings, Twenty First Group (TFG), a sports intelligence firm, have developed an in-house player price model, trained on historical transfers with the aim of estimating how much a player might be sold for in the present-day transfer climate. Advertisement To showcase different leagues' spending power this summer, TFG pointed their model at an existing Premier League player who enjoyed a stellar season in 2024-25 (we'll keep him nameless, as Player X, for fear it looks like we're encouraging a move for him). In doing so, they highlighted clear differences in expected player values, dependent upon the purchasing club. Per TFG's example, Player X's existing club could command an estimated €58m transfer fee if they were to sell to a fellow Premier League club this summer. That amount dips to €51m if a Saudi Pro League club were the buyer, €37m from a La Liga club, €35m from the Bundesliga, €34m from Serie A and €28m from Ligue 1. If that sounds strange — why should imminent destination change a player's transfer value? — then consider that transfers don't happen in a bubble. Just by virtue of a Premier League club being interested, a player's value rises. Selling clubs are fully aware of the riches England's top-tier clubs have and barter for as big a slice as they can muster. Linked to that, since 2018-19, Premier League spending as a proportion of the 'big five' has risen from 32 per cent to 45 per cent. At the other end of the scale, the financial chaos which has enveloped French football in recent years, and shows little sign of abating any time soon, has dramatically reduced Ligue 1 clubs' spending power. Paris Saint-Germain are a clear outlier (and the fact they are can be held up as at least one reason for the diminishing financial power of the league as a whole — TFG rate the spread of quality in Ligue 1 as the least even across the 'big five' European leagues), but in general French clubs simply cannot afford to spend anywhere close to what their rivals across the English Channel manage. In 2023-24, PSG accounted for 39 per cent of Ligue 1's gross spend. While PSG might operate on a different plane to their domestic rivals, they do help highlight why it is difficult to talk about divisions as homogeneous entities when it comes to transfers. Leverkusen again offer a relevant example. Their hefty takings from Liverpool this summer for Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong have, naturally, boosted their coffers. In turn, they have more buying power than ever before. Already, they look set to break their transfer record, last set six years ago, sending in excess of £30m back to Anfield for Jarell Quansah. Big, one-off sales, or a flurry of good deals, can elevate a club's spending power well beyond what might normally be expected. That's not always the case; good sales are sometimes needed to plug gaps elsewhere. The Primeira Liga in Portugal is routinely one of the best selling leagues in world football, driven by big player profits at the trio of Benfica, Porto and Sporting. Advertisement Relative to the rest of Portugal, none of those clubs skimp on signings, but they trail most European rivals — only Benfica have broken into the top 25 spenders in Europe in any of the past three seasons. Those clubs require big sales to offset operating losses. Much the same is true of clubs in England's second tier, another division that has posted large net transfer income in recent seasons. One league on the rise in terms of spending power is Serie A. The division was third for net spend in 2024-25 and, already this summer, six of the top 20 spending clubs hail from Italy's top division. Buoyed by improving performances in Europe and the attendant wealth that brings (Italian clubs should have topped a collective €400m in UEFA prize money last season for the first time), as well as a competitive domestic league where there've been four different winners in six years, Serie A revenues are improving and their ability to buy likewise. That said, a stagnant TV deal and continued huge losses at some of its biggest clubs — Juventus lost nearly €200m pre-tax in 2023-24, Roma lost €76m — will limit how far that goes. According to TFG's model, Italian clubs get more bang for their buck than elsewhere too. When spending €20m, they estimate Serie A sides would, on average, be able to buy a player worthy of being a starter for the 12th-best Premier League club. In England, where clubs have to put up with paying a premium, €20m would only be enough for a starter at the 18th-best Premier League club. In other words, based on their analysis, Premier League clubs need to spend in excess of €20m if they want starters worthy of sides that will survive relegation. Obviously, that's not a set rule for every deal, and the source of those players has a bearing on their value. Premier League clubs enjoy the benefit of their players' values increasing by virtue of having played in the Premier League, as proven by the huge player profits relegated clubs like Southampton have been able to generate in recent years. Players reared in the league's best academies can go for huge fees. Those factors help offset the premium paid on new signings, but it remains that English football's well-known wealth means its clubs have to stomach paying more than their European peers. Thankfully for them, they tend to be able to afford it. English Premier League clubs retain their spending power, with a new TV deal only likely to add further heft to their transfer sprees. Liverpool and Manchester City top the transfer charts already, spending nearly €300m between them even before we've reached July. They and their Premier League peers will generally be able to buy as they please this summer — but that doesn't mean it's as simple as it looks. English clubs will continue to dominate transfer spending, but the huge sums they spend are in part because everyone knows they have to ability to spend it in the first place.
Forbes
20-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Florian Wirtz Joins Liverpool For A Club Record Fee From Leverkusen
Florian Wirtz has signed a contract until 2030 at Liverpool. (Photo by Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via ... More Getty Images) Liverpool FC via Getty Images The biggest deal in Bundesliga history is completed. On Friday, Liverpool announced that the club had signed German star Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen. Wirtz has signed a contract until 2030. 'I feel very happy and very proud,' Wirtz said in a Liverpool club statement. 'Finally it's done and I was waiting for a long time – finally it's done and I am really happy. I'm really excited to have a new adventure in front of me. This was also a big point of my thoughts: that I want to have something completely new, to go out of the Bundesliga and to join the Premier League.' It is a record deal for Leverkusen. According to the transfer experts at Transfermarkt , Leverkusen will receive an initial €125 million ($144 million), with a further €15 million ($17.3 million) in very achievable add-ons, plus another possible €10 million ($11.5 million) in more difficult-to-reach add-ons. Where does that deal rank among Premier League players? Wirtz has become the most expensive German player, the most expensive player in Premier League history , and the sixth most expensive player in the history of the game . If all add-ons are met, it could rise to the third most expensive transfer ever. 'We are very proud of the path he has taken at Bayer 04," said Leverkusen CEO Fernando Carro in a club statement. "Now we have to let him go. We will miss Florian, but part of him will always be connected to Bayer 04. His sporting ability and his irrepressible commitment are an example and inspiration to us to show our full ambition to establish Bayer 04 at the top of German football and always strive to achieve the maximum success." Florian Wirtz helped guide Leverkusen to the Bundesliga title in 2024. (Photo by Stuart ...) Getty Images For Leverkusen, the Wirtz departure marks another moment in what will be a massive rebuild for the club this summer. Leverkusen, after all, not only lost Wirtz but also sold Jérémie Frimpong to Liverpool, as well as losing head coach Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid. With that in mind, new head coach Erik ten Hag now faces the tricky task of building a new squad that can chase Rekordmeister Bayern Munich. The fees earned this summer will help. After all, Leverkusen also received €40 million ($46 million) for Frimpong, as well as a significant fee for Alonso. Using that money well is now a task for the director of sport, Simon Rolfes. As for Liverpool, the Reds were able to add one of the most talented players ever produced in German football. Indeed, Wirtz is an impact player who has guided Leverkusen to an undefeated domestic double in 2023/24. At Liverpool, Wirtz now wants to continue to collect titles. 'I would like to win everything every year,' Wirtz said 'First of all, we have to do our work, I have to make my work. In the end, we want to be successful. Last season they won the Premier League, so my goal is for sure to win it again and also to go further in the Champions League. I'm really ambitious.'
