Premier League transfer spending spree has made a dog’s dinner of Europe’s old elite

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You know what’s not? Hull City spent more money this window than 36-time Italian champions Juventus (Getty) The belief you can make this make sense is kind of the point of the transfer window for the fan.

As I’m sure you get, it just means buying a guy from one of the other teams in the league, not anything more significant like actually having proven yourself in the Premier League. Premier League clubs set up scouting departments, bought occasional flops from various other leagues and then thought, okay here’s one way of removing an unknown variable: just buy the players belonging to the clubs with lower resources in the league than you.

That’s one reason I think I’m sitting here considering them only as units that compare with each other, rather than, say, what the analysts themselves might make at a Premier League club. But looking at the numbers this window you come to realise it is not.Nearly all European clubs are now underdogs to anyone in the Premier League and that’s not good news for anyone with a dog in that fight.