The Super League is here! Premier League spend 1 BILLION more than Spain, Italy, Germany & France COMBINED

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 10 Aug 2025 10:40 BST
• 4 min read

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Remember all the Premier League fans, egged on by a compliant British media, who stormed England’s streets back in 2021 to fight against the European Super League?

‘The Death of Football’, ‘Super Greed’, ‘No to a footballing cartel’, ‘Created by the poor, stolen by the rich’.

These were just a handful of the banners and chants at protests outside English grounds before Boris Johnson’s government helped bring down the ESL and ‘save football’.

There was another popular slogan during the protest; ‘Football Belongs To Us, Not You’.

Fast forward four years and this is exactly what the situation is now in European football.

Football belongs to the Premier League and no other leagues.

Crazy Premier League spending

The level of spending in the EPL compared to La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 is downright embarrassing.

This summer the Premier League has a net spend of a whopping €-1,102,933,275. This means that the EPL is well over €1 BILLION in the red when it comes to transfers.

Meanwhile, the other four major European leagues have a COMBINED net spend of PLUS €289,326,500. So they have made a PROFIT of over €160m.

That equals a net spend difference of just under €1.4 billion.

Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 have all made more than they have spent on transfers this summer.

Seven of the 10 most expensive transfers in Europe this summer are to Premier League clubs, including five of the top six.

Fourteen of the top 20 and 18 of the top 25 are by English clubs.

Teams like West Ham, Sunderland, Nottingham Forest, Brighton, Bournemouth, Everton and Burnley have made bigger purchases than European giants like Barcelona, Juventus and Inter Milan.

We are only on August 10 and the Premier League has already spent over €2.3 BILLION gross this summer.

That is more than the other big five European leagues in gross spending combined.

The revenue that the Premier League generates each year through TV and commercially is strengthening the English cartel with every passing season.

Over the next three years the Premier League will generate €14.32bn from foreign and domestic TV revenue.

Serie A, the highest spending league in Europe this summer after the EPL, will generate €3.6bn.

What hope does every other league have?

Today, the best clubs in each league can’t even beat the smallest Premier League sides to signings.

Brighton beat Serie A’s top clubs to the €10 million signing of Hellas Verona’s Diego Coppola.

Nottingham Forest beat Serie A champions Napoli to their top summer target, Bologna’s Dan N’Doye.

The Premier League has created a monopoly on football that every fan (rightly) rallied against back in 2021.

The Super League was not destroyed back in 2021. It was saved. That Super League is called the Premier League.

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