Manchester City could surge to the top of this list at the rate they’re going this summer. Not many title winners have got it right in the following window.
Here are all the Premier League champions since 2000, ranked on how successful their transfer business the following summer turned out…
21) 2013: Manchester United
Players signed: Guilermo Varela (Penarol, £2m), Marouane Fellaini (£27m)
Finished: 6th
The summer Fergie and David Gill left, to be replaced by David Moyes and Ed Woodward, who told everyone he was jet-setting on ‘urgent transfer business’ before overpaying on deadline day for Fellaini. A shambles all round.
20) 2015: Chelsea
Players signed: Nathan Atlético (Paranaense, £4,5m), Joseph Colley (Brommapojkarna, undisclosed), Asmir Begovic (Stoke City, £8m), Danilo Pantic (Partizan, £1,25m), Baba Rahman (Augsburg, £14m), Pedro (Barcelona, £21,4m), Kenedy (Fluminense, £6,3m), Papy Djilobodji (Nantes, £2,7m), Michael Hector (Reading, £4m), Falcao (Monaco, loan)
Position as defending champions: 10th
No wonder Jose began to unravel. Fourteen million quid for Baba Rahman. So much mediocrity.
19) 2009: Manchester United
Players signed: Antonio Valencia (Wigan, £15m), Michael Owen (Newcastle, free), Gabriel Obertan (Bordeaux, undisclosed), Mame Biram Diouf (Molde, undisclosed)
Finished: 2nd
This was the summer Fergie sold Cristiano Ronaldo and signed Owen from a brochure. Good times.
18) 2016: Leicester
Players signed: Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover, undisclosed), Luis Hernández (Sporting Gijon, free), Raul Uche, (Rayo Vallecano, undisclosed), Nampalys Mendy (Nice, £13m), Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow, £16m), Bartosz Kapustka (Cracovia, £2,5m), Islam Slimani (Sporting Lisbon £28m)
Finished: 12th
You can’t blame Leicester for spending the summer of 2016 off their t*ts, which is certainly apparent in their recruitment.
17) 2017: Chelsea
Players signed: Willy Caballero (Manchester City, free), Antonio Rudiger (Roma, £29m), Tiemoue Bakayoko (Monaco, £40m), Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid, £58m), Davide Zappacosta (Torino, £23m), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester, £35m)
Finished: 5th
Antonio Conte spent £185million, wasting all of it aside from the Rudiger fee. They still can’t get shot of Bakayoko, but at least they finally stop paying Danny Drinkwater’s salary next week.
16) 2012: Manchester City
Players signed: Jack Rodwell (Everton, £12m), Richard Wright (unattached, free), Scott Sinclair (Swansea, £6.2m), Maicon (Inter…
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