The summer of LaLiga’s pulse with European football and Saudi Arabia

It lags far behind the two white signatures 12 million euros to Loic Badé Seville, the football player who played in the Andalusian club on loan with the compulsory purchase option last season; Arsen Zakharyan, the 13th of the Royal Society; anyone 12 of Celta de Vigo in Anastasios DouvikasTop scorer of the last Eredivisie.

Almost unnoticeable economic flexibility

At the beginning of this summer, in order to make the competition more flexible and encourage more names to come to the clubs, LaLiga announces rule change that clubs can use up to 50% (previously 40%) of the revenue they release on salaries and transfers. If the sold player’s salary expense is more than 5% of the team’s total squad cost, this percentage can be increased up to 60%.

However, one important point remained. relates to income from transfers. If the sold player’s token does not exceed 5% of the salary mass, the club that sold over the salary margin can only use 20% Total turnover in new establishments and registrations, If the player leaving the club receives more than this 5%, this rate increases to 35%. This is important because despite the revenue from player sales, clubs can only invest a minimum percentage when the salary cap is exceeded, which does not allow for large movements.

Generally speaking, League clubs have seen their coffers grow with the sale of many of their core assets. coaches, on the other hand, make “coil lace” in order to compete with the ever-shrinking squads. Or they are forced to scrap with high salaries that they cannot place on the teams of our competition. For all these reasons, The League in this market fell to fifth place in spending figures, behind Europe’s leading leagues. premierSerie A, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga. Also behind the great instigator of that market, saudi arabia leagueEmerging as a major threat in this market, capturing young players from our League, As in the case of Gabri Veiga, He left Celta de Vigo for 36 million euros at the age of 19, influenced by the conditions of developing Saudi football.

Only four in Premier imitate our League

This Sunday, the Premier League threw the house out the window as usual. YouOnly four clubs failed to break the 20 million euro spending barrier: Newly promoted Luton Town and Burnley, Wolverhampton Wanderers (similar to Valencia CF) and Nottingham Forest.

For the rest, the signatures are as follows 75 million to 116 million to Declan Rice or Kai Havertz inverted by Arsenal anyone 116 by Moisés Caicedo, 62 from Belgium Romeo Lavia from Chelsea, 70 from Liverpool Dominik Szoboszlai, Manchester United’s new striker at 75Belgian Rasmus Hojlund or League champion Guardiola’s Manchester City’s 90s at Josko Gvardiol They stand out in a league where spending exceeds 1 billion 200 million euros.

Italy also regained its position of power With an investment of 764 million euros The football players who monopolize the most expensive transfer rankings in this market are not paid big, but many clubs with investments of more than ten million Euros stand out, Something in the league that only Real Sociedad, Celta de Vigo or Sevilla have been able to achieve in the midfield.

In France, PSG stands out from the rest in terms of spending: 60 million at Manuel Ugarte, 50 million at Ousmane Dembelé or 45 million at Bayern Munich’s Lucas Hernández, bumping up the numbers in a league Nearly 700 million (686,24) expenditures were reached.

Bayern Munich had to invest in a striker after an erratic season in Germany, signing British Harry Kane, one of this summer’s signings and one of the most face-to-face names in Munich history, for 100m euros. This is unthinkable for a Spanish club other than Real Madrid. The only Spanish club that can keep up with the pace set by other leagues and clubs in each market.

For 50 million, Korean defender Min-jae Kim also arrived in Munich, Spain. FC Barcelona had trouble signing Iñigo Martínezfree from an Athletic that doesn’t invest in a substitute either.

New threat Saudi Arabia

But Saudi Arabia’s attack has undoubtedly been the biggest concern for European and Spanish clubs this summer. The spectacular salaries and conditions promised in the contracts these clubs offer have turned world football upside down, and until last year, he was one of the big names in Champions League duels. Investments in stars have also been added to the transfers of Cristiano Ronaldo or Karim Benzema Like Riyad Mahrez or Sadio Mané more than 20 million Brazilian Fabinho from Liverpool for 47 million euros, 60 million euros from Porto and 90 million euros to Neymar for Portuguese Otavio.

The numbers in transfers and salaries go beyond utopia for Spanish clubs classified for Europe, which, as in the case of Sergio Canales, have difficulty retaining their talents or registering new players, as with Bellerín or Bartra. To strengthen their roster, Barça had to resort to out-of-contract players like Íñigo Martínez or Gündoğan, or zero-cost operations like the transfers of Joao Félix and Joao Cancelo. Similar to the situation Atlético de Madrid resorted to, their most notorious signings came without a single euro (Azpilicueta and Soyuncu).

Even so, although different remedies have been tried, the truth is LaLiga bleeds to death when it comes to competition in the market for big jewels and also to protect what you already have. Debt continues to be the main actor in clubs that have lost talent for nothing. which hurts the show in the long run.