Dreaming bigger, as the PSG motto indicates, costs him dearly, very dearly. Over the past ten years, the Parisian club has purchased players worth 1.07 billion euros. Only Chelsea, globally, spent more: 1.13 billion euros. But with only 420 million euros in sales, the Parisian club has posted a deficit of 646 million euros on the transfer market since 2015. This is almost the equivalent of a year of turnover for the club. (800 million euros in 2022-2023).
This monetary balance sheet is the worst in the world according to the latest study by the CIES Football Observatory which looked at “the monetary assessment of the transfer operations which concerned players not from the training center both recruited since 2015 and in the meantime definitively transferred. »
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Mbappé and Neymar generate the maximum losses
Two transfers obviously widen the hole a little more on the Parisian side: that of Kylian Mbappé (-180 million euros) and that of his ex-Brazilian teammate Neymar (-132 million euros). As a reminder, the top scorer in the history of PSG left free and the Brazilian star, purchased for 222 million, was only sold for 90 million euros in Saudi Arabia…
The CIES reveals that behind PSG, two other clubs have a negative balance sheet of more than 500 million euros: the English clubs Manchester United (-584 million, maximum loss of 110 million euros for Paul Pogba) and Chelsea (- 580 million with the maximum loss of 70 million euros with the departure of Romelu Lukaku). The rest of this ranking is completed by FC Barcelona (-368 million euros), Tottenham (-311 million euros) and Arsenal (-275 million euros).
Losc sells very well
The best student in the world in this category is Lille. Le Losc has become a true trading specialist. It presents the most positive balance sheet with 234 million euros in spending over the last decade for players no longer owned by the club, compared to 617 million euros in revenue, for a positive balance sheet of 384 million euros. The Northerners are ahead of the Dutch Ajax (+ 289 million euros) and the Germans RB Leipzig (+ 288 million euros). Three other clubs recorded a positive balance of more than 200 million: Eintracht Frankfurt, Atalanta Bergamo and Benfica. The second highest ranked French club is Stade Rennais. There are only 25 Bretonses (+113 million euros).
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Among the ten clubs which recorded the most revenue from transfers covered by the study are four Ligue 1 clubs: Monaco (1is766 million), Lille (4e618 million), Lyon (7th, 498 million) and Rennes (9e425 millions).
Angers (+101 million), Lorient (+80 million), Strasbourg, Reims and Lens (+76 million) are also among the good students. On the other hand, like its Parisian rival, OM (-66 million euros) is among the worst clubs in Europe.
