A Matter of Scale
By: Jan | July 12th, 2007
Angelos Charisteas recently moved from Feyenoord Rotterdam to DFB Cup winners Nuremberg. Charisteas wrote history when he scored the winning goal for Greece in the Euro 2004 final against Portugal. Now he wrote history again with Nuremberg. He is officially the most expensive transfer in the club’s history. Nuremberg paid - drumroll - 2,5 million euros. That’s only a tenth of Bayern Munich’s record investment. They paid €25m to Olympique Marseille to secure Franck Ribery’s services. This would only be a fifth of Ronadhino’s €125m buyout clause which Signore Berlusconi is willing to pay from his pocket money. That’s only €16m less than the €141m all Bundesliga clubs invested for all their new players last season. That’s almost fourteen times as much as their smaller brothers in the second Bundesliga invested but less than a third of the Premier League’s expenses. Add another three million to the €141m and you’ve got roughly the difference between the two European leagues who invested the most money in new players last season. The English Premier League invested €516m and Spain’s Primera Division came in a distant second with only €372m. France’s Ligue 1 (+€91m), Portugal’s Superliga (+€175m) and the Dutch Eredivisie (+€146m) are Europe’s biggest feeder leagues and all boast positive player transfer trade balances for the last four seasons. The English Premier League in comparison boasts a minus €1 billion balance for the same time period. That’s nine times more than the Bundesliga’s minus €111m transfer balance.
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