There’s the Big Three and the Malfunctioning Three, and part of what separates them is being able to sell well. Arsenal are terrible at it...
There’s the Big Three and the Malfunctioning Three, and part of what separates them is being able to sell well. Arsenal are terrible at it.While transfer silly season may be all about who’s coming in , keeping an eye on the outgoings can prove to be just as instructive.
Going back to 2018/19, to that halcyon pre-pandemic summer when Premier League clubs splurged almost a billion quid more on players than they received, Arsenal have invested – or lost, depending on your viewpoint –. Net. Once the players sold have been subtracted from the players purchased, because that is how Maths works.
Since 2018/19, Chelsea have made a whopping £383 million from player sales, and City £328million. During the same period, United, Spurs and Arsenal have made £372million between them. Liverpool have only made £170million, but raised £121.5million from the Philippe Coutinho sale the year before, famously funding the purchases of Virgil Van Dijk, Alisson Becker and Andy Robertson. This is, by any measure, a fairly mind-bending discrepancy.
As for Liverpool, there is only one name you need to know. Signed in 2016 and sent on loan for four seasons – each, of course, for a fee – Marko Grujić was finally sold this summer. Inexplicably, at a total profit of more than £6million. . Signed for £28million back in 2017, scorer of a goal every two-and-a-half games in the most potent attack in club football, Jesus has at times been very good, but has mostly been fine. Yet, for seemingly little reason other than having played in Pep’s all-conquering side, he has commanded a fee of £47million, with only a single year remaining on his contract.
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