CIES/Euro Top 5: "Man City total the most negative net transfer spending" (summer 2016-winter 2021)

Manchester City FC (Premier League) is the club from the European Top 5 that totals "the most negative net transfer spending" over the last five seasons (10 transfer windows, from summer 2016 to winter 2021), with a negative balance of -€631m, according to the Weekly Post from the CIES Football Observatory, published on 08/02/2021.

Manchester City - which posted transfer revenues of €375m and an expenditure of €1006m over the period studied - are ahead of Manchester United FC (Premier League, -€586m), FC Barcelona (LaLiga Santander, -€471m), Paris Saint-Germain (Ligue 1 Uber Eats, -€455m) and FC Inter Milan (Serie A TIM, -€386m), in terms of the most negative spending. In the Top 20 of this ranking, there are 11 Premier League clubs, 5 Serie A TIM clubs, 2 Bundesliga clubs, 1 club from LaLiga Santander and 1 Ligue 1 Uber Eats club.

Conversely, LOSC Lille (Ligue 1 Uber Eats) is the club from one of the European Top 5 leagues, that posted the best results in terms of transfer transactions over the last five seasons, with a positive balance of €191m, ahead of Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue…