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9 months ago
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Every week, the CIES Football Observatory publishes a weekly letter on various topics concerning football. This time, for its 448th study, the organization based in Neuchâtel was interested in the assessments “the most positive and negative in terms of transfer operations of players not from the training center recruited and transferred between 2014 and 2023 (bonus included, editor’s note)”. And among the best students, we find a French team at the top, namely LOSC. Over the last ten years, the Mastiffs have been rather intelligent when it comes to buying and reselling players.
LOSC at the top of the ranking
They spent €241 million to recruit footballers, including Nicolas Pépé, Victor Osimhen and Sven Botman; which they did not form and which they sold for €627 million. That is to say a positive balance sheet of +€386 million. The Northerners are ahead of Ajax Amsterdam, which has a positive balance of €317 million. They bought for €313 million and got back €630 million. On the third step of the podium, we find RB Salzburg, with a positive balance sheet of €233 million. The Austrian club is ahead of AS Monaco, which bought for €588 million and sold for €806 million in ten years, representing a capital gain of €218 million thanks to players like Tchouaméni, Lemar, Bernardo Silva and others .
The princely club is ahead of Leipzig (+€216m), Sassuolo (+€208m), Benfica (+€200m), Atalanta (+€200m), Eintracht Frankfurt (+€182m) and Sporting CP (+€169m), which completes this top 10. A little further in the ranking of the 50 best clubs, we find Stade Rennais (+€109m), Angers (+€103m), Lorient (+€109m), 85 M€), Lens (+83 M€), Montpellier (+67 M€), Strasbourg (+64 M€), Metz (+59 M€), Olympique Lyonnais (+54 M€) and Nice ( +€51 million). Others, however, are not as good as them. This is the case of FC Barcelona, which is at the top of the ranking of clubs with negative balances.
PSG and OM bad students
They have a deficit of €631 million (€1.244 billion in purchases and €613 million in sales), having sold players like Coutinho, Ousmane Dembélé and Antoine Griezmann at a loss. The Blaugranas are ahead, without much surprise, of Chelsea, who have a negative balance of €482 million. The CIES specifies that the Blues’ three biggest losses concern the transfers of Jorginho, Christian Pulisic and Antonio Rüdiger. Third place is occupied by Arsenal (-€436 million, Pépé, Aubameyang, Lacazette). The Gunners are followed by Paris Saint-Germain with a negative balance sheet of -€410 million.
The capital club is paying off its investments in Neymar, Mauro Icardi and even Angel Di Maria. He is ahead of Manchester United (-€328 million), fifth. Further afield, we find Real Madrid (-€199 million), Al-Nassr (-€101 million), Bayern Munich (-€61 million) and even Manchester City (-€59 million). In addition to PSG, we find another French club, namely Olympique de Marseille (-€74 million), which spent €367 million and sold for €293 million over the last ten years. The Phocaeans, like the Parisians, must therefore improve with regard to the purchases and sales of players they have not trained.
