To the not having competitions of selections this summer -further of the Glass Confederations that won Germany-, the market of signings has been longer of the normal, especially to level of rumours. The Barça has been one of the big protagonists, heading the ranking of movements with more money of by half.
The exit of Neymar Jr direction Paris has caused a big inflation in the market of signings. Until the point that some of the operations that resembled point to do , as the one of Coutinho in the Barça or the one of Alexis Sánchez in the Manchester City, have not finish doing partly because his clubs of origin have had a lot of difficulties for fichar a substitute to a reasonable price.
It has been a summer in which they have invested more than 3.000 million euros between the five big European leagues. And the ten more expensive signings of the summer have surpassed, like minimum, the 40 million euros, something unthinkable does not do so many years.
In the list of down have not included to Kylian Mbappé, because it treats of a cession of the Monaco to the PSG that does not include the payment of the 160 millions approximated this year. On the other hand, Naby Keita, of the RP Leipzig, has fichado by the Liverpool by 70 million euros, but will incorporate to the English club the season that comes.
The ten more expensive signings
- Neymar (Barça - PSG) - 222 million euros
- Ousmane Dembélé (B.Dortmund - Barça) - 105 millions (more 35 variables)
- Romelu Lukaku (Everton - Manchester United) - 84,7 millions
- Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid - Chelsea) - 65 millions
- Benjamin Mendy (Monaco - Manchester City) - 57 millions
- Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon - Arsenal) - 53 millions
- Kyle Walker (Tottenham - Manchester City) - 51 millions
- Bernardo Silva (Monaco - Manchester City) - 50 millions
- Gilfy Sigurdsson (Swansea - Everton) - 49 millions
- Nemanja Matic (Chelsea - Manchester United) - 45 millions