In a week the transfer window will close its doors. A few big transfers took place everywhere in the big championships, like that of KHVICHA KVARATSKHELIA at PSG for € 70 million, or from Omar Marmoush for € 75 million in Manchester City. There are also a multitude of more secondary movements, but which feed the different flows of players and money. Because this is what it is partly about in this article on the Liga transfer window. The clubs of the Spanish first division welcomed only 9 new elements this winter, including 2 free and 6 on loan.
There was only one transfer for a sum of money. It is that of Ruben Vargas towards Seville FC. The amount of 2.5 M € is therefore a record for this January transfer window in Spain, since it is the only paying transfer. This places the liga in the 34th world place in terms of expenses, just behind Chinese Super League, the MLS Next Pro, the 3rd American division, or the Chilean Division Primera, all at € 3.5 million. Even the 3rd Spanish division spent more with € 5.9 million, due to the investments of Celta B on Jones El-Abdellaouiy and Barça Attic on Ibrahim Diarra.
Liga clubs have only spent € 2.5 million this winter
A real anomaly for a championship and its culture, always very fans of this intoxicating period. The Iberian press regularly makes its headlines on the future of La Liga stars. This is precisely one of the reasons for this problem. The country's most powerful teams have spent nothing in January. Real Madrid has never been a great host of this transfer window, despite a real desire to strengthen in defense, in particular where Alexander-Arnold has not come. FC Barcelona has bogged down for its concerns of recordings by Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.
The Catalans then decided to focus on the extensions of his executives, like Ronal Araujo, Gavi or Pedri. De facto, the wage bill increases and leaves fewer possibilities to recruit. The demanding financial fair-play set up by the League can also explain this situation. Barça learned it at its expense. And despite certain rumors, Atlético has not strengthened either. The championship locomotives remained at the quay, and the wagons were not the subject of significant sales to feed the market.
La Liga very far from its European competitors
There are 28 players who left the Liga in January, most of them in the form of a loan to the lower divisions. These departures reported only € 20 million as a whole, including € 12 million just for the sale of Assane Diao from Betis to Côme. Gonzalo Montiel left him the Seville FC for € 4.5 million and return to River Plate, while Celta received € 3.5 million for the sale of Jonathan Bamba at Chicago Fire. Everything indicates that this situation will not change by the end of the transfer market, with a few details. The Liga will remain very far from its direct competitors, the Premier League (€ 292 million), Ligue 1 (€ 127 million), Serie A (€ 90 million) and Bundesliga (€ 30 million).
