Chelsea vs Manchester City: which team has spent the most money on transfers in recent years?
If you were to ask most soccer fans to name England’s “biggest” clubs, neither Chelsea nor Manchester City would have entered the conversation until recently. The nouveau-riche duo, who meet at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Sunday, are perhaps the two most obvious beneficiaries of the huge influx of money into elite-level soccer, with the vast majority of their historical success coming in recent years. Spending money to win trophies is, of course, nothing new in soccer or indeed sport, but The Blues and Sky Blues have done it more - and in City’s case better - than most of late. Chelsea world soccer’s biggest spenders since 2014 A study carried out by Swiss-bases research institute CIES Football Observatory after the close of the summer 2023 transfer window revealed that since the summer of 2014, no club in world soccer had spent more money on new players than Chelsea. The report showed the Londoners had spent an incredible €2.6 billion ($3.2 billion) on permanent and