Paris Saint-Germain, Man City & the 20 most expensive squads in Europe
With transfer fees growing year on year we take a look at which squads are the most expensively assembled in Europe
Transfer fees have ballooned in the past five years with €50 million (£44m/$57m) now seemingly the minimum you would pay for a top-class player in Europe.
We aren’t quite at the first €1 billion squad (£886m/$1.13bn) yet but we certainly are approaching it, with the most expensive squad in the world at the moment costing €800m (£709m/$912m) to put together, with that figure growing 13% in just 12 months.
With the €100m (£89m/$114m) barrier being broken several times in the past couple of years there is no surprise that we are currently looking at the most expensive squads ever assembled.
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(Figures are for the 2017 financial year)
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#20 Benfica | €228m
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#19 Borussia Dortmund | €233m
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#18 Everton | €244m
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#17 Monaco | €265m
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#16 Atletico Madrid | €278m
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#15 Tottenham Hotspur | €280m
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#14 Napoli | €290m
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#13 AC Milan | €330m
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#12 Roma | €344m
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#11 Liverpool | €390m
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#10 Inter | €394m
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#9 Bayern Munich | €415m
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#8 Barcelona | €429m
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#7 Arsenal | €508m
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#6 Paris Saint-Germain | €525m
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#5 Juventus | €529m
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#4 Chelsea | €531m
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#3 Manchester United | €751m
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#2 Real Madrid CF | €790m
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#1 Manchester City | €800m