Chelsea have spent more than every team in Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga COMBINED in January

Chelsea‘s outrageous January spending has dwarfed that of every team in Europe’s three top leagues combined, as their £159million winter outlay is £100m more than Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga put together.

While the Blues – bankrolled by billionaire owner Todd Boehly – spent £88m alone on Ukrainian Mykhailo Mudryk, their counterparts in Italy, France and Germany have been far more modest in their spending.

Serie A has seen the smallest total transfer spend of the three, with just £7.9m, while Ligue 1 teams have been slightly more ambitious to the tune of £9.3m, with Nantes, Lyon, Toulouse and Lens spending money on transfer fees.

Benoit Badiashile joined Chelsea for £35m this winter from Monaco to bolster the defense

Joao Felix didn’t join the club on a permanent basis but still cost the Blues £10m as a loan fee

The Bundesliga has seen an expenditure of £29.7m, bringing the three leagues’ total to £46.9m.

That’s more than £112m less than what Chelsea alone have spent this winter as they look to climb up the table from their current 10th-place position.

Aside from Mudryk, Chelsea have signed four players this winter, the most expensive of the rest being French defender Benoit Badiashile, who arrived from Monaco for £35m.

Meanwhile, midfielder Andrey Santos arrived for £18m from Vasco de Gama, forward David Datro Fofana cost £8m from Molde and Portuguese star Joao Felix arrived on loan for a fee just shy of £10m.

To put Chelsea’s spending into perspective, the most expensive transfer from the three aforementioned league’s was Borussia Monchengladbach’s £7.9m capture of goalkeeper Jonas Omlin.

And while Chelsea are certainly leading the way in England, they haven’t been the only big spenders in the Premier League, with nine of the world’s 10 biggest transfers this window coming from there.

Midfielder Andrey Santos joined from Brazilian club Vasco de Gama this window

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