Premier League: how Manchester City became a ‘ticket machine’… While he still chooses everything

“This is the legacy of football.”. That was the jeweler phrase that Jose Mourinho uttered a few seasons ago to define The huge project that Pep Guardiola built at Manchester City. An inexhaustible machine of spending money-more and more precisely-that lately, Become the best selling team in the world. Or at least the one who earns the most money… While still competing for all titles Insatiable.

Since the arrival of Pep Guardiola in 2016, Manchester City is the fourth team in the world with the most transfer spending. Specifically, 1,530 million euros. Only Manchester United (1540), Paris Saint-Germain (1650) and Chelsea (2350) have surpassed him. Now, from a while to this part, They have become specialists when it comes to selling At the right time. In these eight seasons, already They sneaked into the top 10 teams with the most money (842 million) entered In terms of transfers.

Conversion revenue (2016-2024)

1. Chelsea (1.250 million)
2. C. Benfica (1.180 million)
3. Juventus (1.080 million)
4. FC Barcelona (993 million)
5. Monaco (977 million)
6. Borussia Dortmund (972 million)
7. Ajax (960 million)
8. Atletico Madrid (851 million)
9. Manchester City (842 million)
10. Olympique de Lyon (765 million)

In fact, the Nine of the ten most expensive sales in the club’s history have occurred with Pep as coach And Seven of them were in the last three seasons. The time period in which Manchester City sold it for 403 million euros. Only Benfica (477) and Chelsea (490) are above.

Conversion revenue (2022-2024)

1. Chelsea (490 million)
2. C. Benfica (477 million)
3. Ajax (404 million)
4. Manchester City (403 million)
5. Leipzig (382 million)

More from the prominent personalities that HAI to add another 128 million to canteranos sales… Which doesn’t even include Cole Palmer. Everything, besides, Retaining pieces in the first team such as Rico Lewis, James McAtee, Oscar Pope and above all Phil Foden. The best player of the last edition of the English Premier League.

That’s right, Except for Ilkay G. oshdogan, who was released last summer and made his way back From Barcelona 12 months later, They have not lost a single piece of type eleven Guardiola, who cost 650 million euros. The biggest example of this is They finally lifted the long-awaited Champions League in 2023 And they have just started The road to the ‘poker game’ Running in the Premier.

A summer bathed in gold

Last summer , in particular, they made 141 million euros With sales Julie ocean Alvarez – Club record-, Joao Cancelo, Taylor Harwood-Bayliss Or Sergio Gomez. In addition, it should be added to Yann Coteau, Who arrives on loan to Borussia Dortmund for four million and has a purchase obligation (if certain conditions are met) of about 25 million euros.

The sale of Julian was very painful, Because he was the personal best example of why Manchester City got the most complete team in the world. There is a lot of money to turn the transfer market upside down. But Citizen group is not a motivated club More recently. In fact, on the horizon I glimpsed a The strategy is similar to that of Real Madrid with Kylian Mbappe.

During the summer Various names of rillebrunn have been linked To get to Manchester City. However, they were reporting from England that they would not go crazy and They’re going for a last-minute ‘cover-up’. It is about Uri Oskarsson.The 19-year-old Icelandic striker scored seven goals in 11 matches during the start of the season with Copenhagen. Clubs like Porto or Real Sociedad follow him closely.

It is clear that with such a sum of money, and even more so when it comes to Manchester City, You always have to be with stiff ears ‘in case the coconut comes’. But, except for a surprise, most clubs will be able to live this last segment of the market quietly without fear that Guardiola will arrive to snatch one of its top stars. Perhaps, it is a risky choice and only time will tell whether they are right or not. Therefore, We’ll see if they don’t have to hit the ‘Bulletin’ in the winter… And he took out the checkbook. The money, and a lot of it, is in the coffers of the Federation.