Al Hilal Emerges as Second Biggest Spender in World Football, Surpassing Real Madrid and Barcelona

The emergence of Saudi football on the world stage is already ‘bearing fruit’. Spending this summer has been massive, also by several entities, but there is one that stands out above all: Al Hilal. The club that signed Neymar, Neves, Bono, Malcom…

And now, with the signing of Renan Lodi for 23 million euros, it is the second club in the world to accumulate the highest spending so far. He does it with a total of 376 million euros, according to Transfermarkt.

The Saudis are only surpassed by Chelsea, which tops the ranking with 467 million euros of spending. Figures at the level of very few, unpublished, that surpass the records of big clubs. For example, Al Hilal’s spending so far exceeds the biggest historical ‘waste’ in a season by Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

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Those summers, between 2017 and 2020, in which, for example, the Madrid entity signed Eden Hazard for 115 million euros from Chelsea, and FC Barcelona acquired Dembélé, from Borussia Dortmund, for 135 million euros. euros. These seasons, 2019/20, and 2017/2018 respectively, are the ones in which both clubs spent the most.

In the summer of the Belgian’s signing, Real Madrid accumulated a total of 355 million euros in expenses. The Blaugrana, for their part, spent 375 million euros in the summer of Dembélé’s incorporation. Numbers very close to those of Al Hilal.

Now, the Saudis have only achieved 1.3 million euros in sales, so they have losses of 374 million euros in their coffers. The signings, below:

NeymarPSG: 90 M€MalcomZenit: 60 M€Rúben NevesWolves: 55 M€MitrovicFulham: 52.5 M€Milinkovic-SavicLazio: 40 M€Renan LodiOM: 23 M€KoulibalyChelsea: 23 M€BonoSevilla: 21 M€DevotedAl Shabab: 11.5 M€

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2024-01-21 08:27:06
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