La Liga president Javier Tebas has slammed the Premier League for the amount of money clubs spent in the summer transfer window.
Clubs in the Spanish top flight laid out £404million in the summer window – with Real Madrid and Barcelona splashing out £209m themselves.
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Premier League clubs, on the other hand, splurged over £2bn in transfer fees.
Chelsea spent over £250m, meanwhile, Manchester United forked out £194m to sign the likes of Antony and Lisandro Martinez.
Even newly-promoted Nottingham Forest spent more than any La Liga club, splashing out a whopping £154m on 22 players.
And I’ll tell you what, Tebas is not a happy bunny.
He says he is going to speak to UEFA about it all, the little tattletale.
“Premier League revenues are 1.8 times more than LaLiga or Bundesliga but this negative amount is 20 times more than the Spanish league which has very good financial control,” he said at La Liga public presentation.
“Something doesn’t make sense there, so what’s happening? There’s a lot of chequebooks coming out from clubs like Manchester City that sign a certain amount of players. Even the Championship lost €3bn over five years. The contributions of capital from club owners from Premier League clubs to compensate losses compared to LaLiga.
“There were €277m in capital increases in La Liga. €2376m in Premier League which are contributions and loans provided. In the Championship it was €1385m. It would be normal if they signed twice as many players but they have spent much more than even that. This can only be possible if the owners get out their chequebooks and these are different models.
“I know the Premier League has a model to limit losses to £108m, do we want unsustainable models? What happens if the owners stop spending the money? We could let the sheiks and big companies come in here to buy out clubs. PSG can get more gas whenever they need to buy more players or use a related business.
“The football industry has changed and there’s much more money. If there’s no control then we could endanger the industry itself. The two competitions that are the most sustainable are La Liga and the Bundesliga and we have to really fight for sustainability.
“10 years ago we weren’t like the Bundesliga but we are now. We’re going to put all this to UEFA and it is important for all the other European leagues as we…
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