This year’s summer transfer window is likely to be one of the least active in history as world football deals with the financial impact of the sport’s global suspension.
This collectively-reduced spending power could hardly have come at a worse time for Manchester City. Squad values have dropped by 28 per cent among the ‘Big Five’ leagues of England, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France, according to the CIES Football Observatory, while the Premier League alone may have seen £1.8bn knocked off player values, per The Mirror.
Clubs will not be willing to let go of their prized assets for a reduced fee, instead hoping for the market to recover, while even Europe’s super clubs will struggle to afford to splash the cash on new players now that they
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