How net transfer spend of Premier League ‘Big Six’ compares since Pep Guardiola’s arrival with Man Utd outspending City

PEP GUARDIOLA deed the panic fastener successful the January transportation window.

After the worst tally of his managerial vocation - which included 5 defeats successful a enactment earlier collapsing against Feyenoord - helium sanctioned a whopping £182million outlay to effort and rescue Manchester City's season.

City started disconnected their New Year spending spree by landing centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov for £33.6m.

The Premier League’s archetypal Uzbek subordinate was followed to the Etihad by chap defender Vitor Reis for £29.6m.

Guardiola past bolstered his onslaught with the biggest signing of the January transportation model successful England, dropping £64m connected Omar Marmoush from Eintracht Frankfurt.

Juma Bah joined for £5.1m and past City ensured they secured the 4 biggest deals of the period by snapping up £50m Spanish midfielder Nico Gonzalez connected deadline day. 

Together with Savinho arsenic their main caller acquisition backmost successful the summertime for £21m, City spent much than £200m connected players this season. 

But they besides made £159m successful sales.

More than fractional of that came from Julian Alvarez’s exit to Atletico Madrid portion Joao Cancelo headed to Saudi Arabia and erstwhile again the currency added up by letting a big of academy graduates go. 

But City’s £201m expenditure and £42m nett walk were some acold exceeded by neighbours Manchester United.

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Ruben Amorim’s main signing successful January was the £29m dropped connected left-back Patrick Dorgu - adding to the £200m spent successful the summertime connected the likes of Joshua Zirkzee, Leny Yoro, Matthijs de Ligt, Noussair Mazraoui and Manuel Ugarte. 

With lone £86m raised successful departures, the 2024-25 nett walk was £143m. 

And that was the biggest of the ‘Big Six’ this play - truthful extending their ‘lead’ arsenic the wide biggest nett spenders among the elite English clubs since 2016, erstwhile Pep Guardiola arrived. 

1. MAN UTD - £1billion

Since 2016, Manchester United person spent a staggering £1.37billion connected caller players.

Paul Pogba’s £89m accomplishment that twelvemonth remains the nine record, though Antony (£85.5m), Harry Maguire (£85m), Romelu Lukaku (£75m), Jadon Sancho (£73m) and Rasmus Hojlund (£72m) each arrived successful monolithic deals.

Their biggest signing this play was Leny Yoro for up to £52m. 

United’s grounds merchantability remains Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80m successful 2009 truthful the highest interest received successful the play since 2016 is the £73m they got from Inter Milan for Romelu Lukaku successful 2019.

Ironically, the wealth banked for Mason Greenwood (£26.6m) and Scott McTominay (£25m) successful the summertime are among the biggest United income of each time.

Across the play from 2016, United person sold £371m worthy of players - the lowest successful the ‘Big Six’ - to instrumentality their wide nett walk to conscionable astir precisely £1bn. 

2. CHELSEA - £836million

Chelsea’s brainsick spending has gone to adjacent much bonkers levels since Todd Boehly took implicit successful 2022. 

But successful the past 9 seasons, the full is hardly believable: a staggering £1.97bn. 

This season’s £54m woody for Pedro Neto does not adjacent marque the apical 10 connected their database - down the likes of Wesley Fofana (£75m), Kai Havertz (£70m) and that antheral Lukaku again (£97.5m).

Chelsea are the lone English squad to person spent £100m-plus connected 2 antithetic transfers - the £106m for Enzo Fernandez and £100m, perchance rising to £115m, for Moises Caicedo. 

But portion Chelsea are the biggest Prem spenders, they are besides the biggest Prem sellers, racking up £1.13bn successful subordinate exits - including £88m (Eden Hazard to Real Madrid), £65m (Havertz to Arsenal) and £60m (Mason Mount to United) - arsenic their nett walk works retired arsenic £836m. 

That was helped by fetching large wealth for Ian Maatsen (£37.5m), Lewis Hall (£28m), Conor Gallagher (£36m) and Lukaku (£25.2m) this term. 

3. MAN CITY - £695million

We’ve already discussed City’s spending this play but however does that play into the wide representation successful the Guardiola era?

In total, the Etihad giants are 2nd for outlays connected £1.46bn.

Marmoush’s accomplishment is 4th successful their all-time list, conscionable down Ruben Dias and past a mode disconnected Josko Gvardiol (£77m) and record-signing Jack Grealish who outgo £100m.

As with Chelsea, though, City fetch immoderate hefty prices for selling disconnected a question of youngsters bully capable for galore teams but conscionable not rather astatine Guardiola’s required elite level. 

The Alvarez woody could emergence to £81.5m portion the wealth for Taylor Harwood-Bellis (£20m), Liam Delap (£15m), Sergio Gomez (£8.4m) and Tommy Doyle (£4.3m) racks up.

After Alvarez, City’s different biggest income successful the play are Raheem Sterling, Ferran Torres, Gabriel Jesus, Leroy Sane and Cole Palmer (all betwixt £47.5m and £40m). 

And the full tally is simply a nett walk of £695m with Guardiola successful the dugout.

4. ARSENAL - £688million

City’s nett walk is conscionable £7m oregon truthful much than Arsenal’s implicit the aforesaid play - but they person six much Premier League titles, 4 much League Cups, an other Champions League and an other Club World Cup to amusement for it, and the aforesaid fig of FA Cups. 

Arsenal’s full is £688m successful the reddish - including astir £23m this play with astir £100m spent and £77m received. 

David Raya (£27m), Riccardo Calafiori (£42m), and Mikel Merino (£31m) were the large arrivals but Emile Smith Rowe (£27m), Aaron Ramsdale (£18m) and Eddie Nketiah (£25m) each departed. 

Arsenal person not been acrophobic to walk big, splashing retired £60m connected Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and £72m connected Nicolas Pepe earlier the much caller arrivals of £65m Kai Havertz and £105m Declan Rice. 

The Smith Rowe woody is their fifth-biggest merchantability ever - and Nketiah ninth - portion Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain tops the heap connected £35m to Liverpool successful 2017.

5. TOTTENHAM - £580million

Tottenham are conscionable shy of the £1bn spending people since 2016 - connected £995m.

That includes £145m this play connected grounds accomplishment Dominic Solanke (£65m), £40m connected Archie Gray, £25m connected Wilson Odobert and £12.5m connected goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky who came successful during January. 

Other large outlays were Richarlison (£50m), Dejan Kulusevski (£25m), James Maddison (£40m), Pedro Porro (£37.3m), Micky van de Ven (£35m) and Brennan Johnson (£47.5m). 

As for their sales, they full £415m successful the clip framework - the large 1 being Harry Kane leaving for Bayern Munich astatine the opening of past play for an archetypal £86m.

Kyle Walker’s determination to Manchester City successful 2017 was worthy astir £50m but the biggest income this play were Oliver Skipp to Leicester (£20m), Emerson Royal to Milan (£12.8m) and Joe Rodon to Leeds (£10m). 

And that each means Spurs are down £580m connected transportation fees since 2016.

6. LIVERPOOL - £282million

Perhaps it is nary astonishment to spot Liverpool with the champion nett walk of the ‘Big Six’ connected a specified £282m implicit the past 9 seasons. 

In fact, the Reds person really made a nett successful the 2024-25 run by lone buying Federico Chiesa for £10m and raising £50m successful income from Fabio Carvalho (£20m), Sepp van den Berg (£20m) and Bobby Clark (£10m). 

It continued a omniscient - and palmy - transportation strategy that has seen Liverpool merchantability large and past hold to find the close players astatine the close clip for the close price. 

In the pre-2016 epoch not included successful these figures, Liverpool sold Luis Suarez, Fernando Torres and Raheem Sterling.

They past secured an eye-watering £145m from Barcelona for Philippe Coutinho successful 2018, making up much than a 4th of their £505m successful income during the acceptable period. 

Liverpool person not been acrophobic to splash the currency excessively - £787m successful full since 2016 - with te wide £85.3m woody for Darwin Nunez successful 2022 their grounds signing up of Virgil van Dijk (£75m), Alisson (£67m), Dominik Szoboszlai (£60m) and Naby Keita (£53m). 

Interestingly, Liverpool’s £282m nett walk since 2016 is importantly little than West Ham (£451m) and Newcastle (£396m) and conscionable £8m much than Aston Villa aft they sold Jaden Philogene (£20m), Diego Carlos (£8.5m) and Jhon Duran (£64m) successful January.