The economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused a 69% reduction in transfer spending in the MX League compared to the winter period of 2020
Liga MX reduced the investment in transfers by 74.3 million dollars during the recent winter market, due to the economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data from Transfermarkt, a site specialized in market values, the national football had its second worst investment from December to January in the last five years.
Derived from the crisis, they financed the teams, the teams did not make large hires, as they did in the last two winter periods, and the expense they made in the 2019-20 and 2018-19 seasons exceeded 100 million dollars .
According to Transfermarkt, for the winter market of the 2020-21 season, lLiga MX clubs spent just $ 35.59 million, the second lowest figure in this period in the last five years, and that is that for just two million dollars, they exceeded the investment made in the 2017-18 campaign, which was 33.98 million dollars.
The investment of this transfer period compared to last year represents a reduction of 69%, or what is the same, just a third of the 109 million dollars that the 18 teams spent just 12 months ago, when the tournament and the whole world did not face the financial consequences of playing without an audience, reduced player salaries and few hires.
Even the Liga MX relaxed its regulations so that players who had already been registered in some other team he could be hired by a club of the same competition, as long as he had no activity on the court.
León was the club that opened the portfolio, as the specialized page indicates that the emeralds were spent 4.95 million dollars in this market, which ended in the purchase of Victor Davila.
Later, Tigres followed, which spent 4.93 million dollars in the purchase of Carlos González from Pumas, and in the third place was Xolos, which invested 4.57 million dollars for the movements of Mauro Manotas Y Christian Rivera.
In this way, the economic crisis derived from the Covid-19 pandemic marked a before and after in the investments of the clubs, especially in the winter market, since the time between the Opening and Closing tournament is short, many Clubs refuse to open the portfolio due to the short time of adaptation of the elements.
Other situations that influence that winter is not so strongly invested are the shortness of the preseason, since the tournament ends in mid-December and, on many occasions, it extends until the Christmas period if a finalist club plays the Club World Cup.
Also, the bureaucratic offices are closed due to the December tournament, so it is difficult to obtain the papers for foreign players to obtain their work visas in good time and that slows down the planning that the coaching staff does.
Investment in transfers Liga MX 2017-2021
Winter 20-21
Total investment: 35.5 million dollars
Winter 19-20
Total investment: 109.9 million dollars
Winter 18-19
Total investment: 137.7 million dollars
Winter 17-18
Total: $ 33.9 million
Winter 16-17
Total investment: 59.4 million dollars
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