Football: a lively transfer window in Europe but few crazy sums

Real’s arch-rival Barcelona, ​​​​still in dire financial straits, dropped significantly with 13 away. This allowed the Spanish publication of Euro-2024, Dani Olmo, to bring his training in Masia back to the fold but he left to shine professionally at Dinamo Zagreb and then at RB Leipzig, for EUR 55 million.

Atlético Antoine Griezmann has strengthened with Argentine strikers Julian Alvarez and Norwegian Alexander Sorloth, Franco-Spanish defender Robin Le Normand, French international Clément Lenglet (on loan) and English midfielder Conor Gallagher.

. England: Chelsea as pure entertainment

Chelsea once again won the award for the most expensive transfer window with more than 200 million pounds (around 240 million EUR) to attract around ten players, including Pedro Neto and Joao Félix, while they waiting for the arrival of Jadon Sancho from Manchester United.

The Londoners sold Romelu Lukaku to Napoli and signed Raheem Sterling on loan to Arsenal.

Brighton, neglected by coach Roberto De Zerbi, lured by Olympique de Marseille, have also multiplied their arrivals, including the arrival of Frenchman Georginio Rutter (Leeds), as well as West Ham with Jean-Clair Todibo, Aaron Wan-Bissaka or Niclas Füllkrug again.

On the other hand, reigning champions Manchester City were happy to buy Savinho and bring back their former captain Ilkay Gündogan, while allowing Julian Alvarez to go to Spain and Joao Cancelo to Saudi Arabia. For his part, Arsenal, in addition to the loan of Sterling, proceeded in small steps by recruiting in defense (Riccardo Calafiori) and in the center (Mikel Merino). Liverpool have only offered one recruit to new coach Arne Slot, Italian player Federico Chiesa (Juventus).

. Italy: Juventus and Napoli in force

After a disappointing 2023-24 season, Juventus Turin have entrusted Thiago Motta with a significantly revised squad, including the most expensive move in Serie A, for Brazilian international Douglas Luiz , from Aston Villa (EUR 51.5 million).

Juve also signed Képhren Thuram, Teun Koopmeiners and Pierre Kalulu for a bill that will easily exceed 100 million euros, just like last year’s tenth place Napoli, who signed Alessandro Buongiorno, for Romelu Lukaku ( Chelsea) and Scott McTominay (Manchester United).

Napoli had hoped to partially offset those costs by selling Nigerian Victor Osimhen to the Saudis Al Ahli for over €75 million, but the deal is slipping as the Jeddah club appear set to terms have been agreed with Brentford to sign England international striker Ivan Toney.

AC Milan seemed almost reasonable with 20 M EUR for Youssouf Fofana (Monaco), 15 M EUR for Emerson Royal (Tottenham) or 13 M EUR for the captain of the European champions of Spain Alvaro Morata (Atlético). Inter, the reigning champion, kept a low profile with the signings of Piotr Zelisnki (Naples) and Mehdi Taremi (Porto), at the end of their contract.

. Germany: Olise to Bayern, Guirassy to Dortmund

Far from the chaos of the 2023 summer transfer window and the arrival of Harry Kane to Bayern for more than 100 million euros, the summer was calm in Germany. Michael Olise, from Crystal Palace, joined Munich for the most expensive job in the competition (EUR 53 million), while Kingsley Coman introduced the Saudi siren.

For his part, Serhou Guirassy, ​​the second top scorer in the Bundesliga last year (28 goals), joined Dortmund for EUR 18 million even though he is recovering from a knee injury discovered during the medical examination.

. France: Marseille turns everything upside down

In a dry Ligue 1 after the collapse of TV broadcast rights, Marseille have increased their names with English striker Mason Greenwood, Argentine goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli, Danish midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and the French Elye Wahi and Neal Maupay. To put this to music, OM hired the Italian Roberto De Zerbi with a smooth reputation as a fan of the beautiful game.

A big change that will cause the Paris SG transfer window, despite the arrival of Joao Neves for 70 M EUR or Désiré Doué for 65 M EUR, a bonus included, almost reasonable, especially after being abandoned by his last big star, Kylian Mbappé.

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