Only 16 teams remain ‘alive’ in the Champions League and the white team is out of the 8 teams that have spent the most this season.
The winter market has come to an end without Real Madrid having closed any incorporationdespite the rumors that put Bellingham in the Madrid orbit.
In this way, the white club in total he has spent 80 million euros this season, counting the past summer market and this January. A sum lower than the one that half of the clubs that will play the round of 16 of the Champions League have disbursed.
Real Madrid, ‘out of Drum 1’
Half of the teams that advanced to the knockout stages of the Champions League have spent more than Real Madrid in the transfer markets of this season, that is, during the summer of 2022 and this January of 2023.
Despite the alleged interest of the Merengue team in taking over the services of players like Jude Bellingham or Josko Gvardiol this January, the only signings that Real Madrid has closed this campaign occurred last summer.
although they were two summer highs on the white table, the team only had to pay for one transfer. The defender Antonio Rüdiguer landed in Madrid as a free player from Chelsea, while the club paid 80 million euros to AS Monaco for Aurélien Tchouaméniaccording to data from Transfermarkt.
Champions League teams that have spent the most
Real Madrid is the 9th group that has disbursed the most money this season of the 16 teams that passed the group stages of The Champions League.
The list is led by three teams from the Premier Leaguewith Chelsea in first position. This is the classification:
- Chelsea FC: €611.49 million
- Tottenham Hotspur FC: €177.9m
- Manchester City: €150.5 million
- PSG: €147.5 million
- Bayern Munich: €145.5 million
- Liverpool F.C.: €137.3 million
- SL Benfica: €114.05 million
- Borussia Dortmund: €104.6 million
- Real Madrid: €80 million
- SSC Napoli: €68.05 million
- RB Leipzig: €59.5 million
- AC Milan: €48.67 million
- Club Bruges: €48.4 million
- FC Porto: €48 million
- Inter Milan: €38.90 million
- Eintracht Frankfurt: €29.6 million
Chelsea, more than Madrid and 8 other teams together
The ‘Blues’ have spent more than the joint investment of 9 teams in this campaign who will play the round of 16 of the Champions League, among which Real Madrid is included.
However, Chelsea FC will only be able to register three players to play the final rounds of the Champions League 22/23, so the London team will have to make four discards.
Betting on the champion of the Champions League
The favorites in the quotas to the champion of this European tournament do not correspond to the investments made by these 16 teams, and it is that the two clubs that lead the list of teams that have spent the most, are out of the main candidates to lift the title.
These are the betting favorites to win the Champions League 2022/23:
1. Manchester City win the Champions League 22/23 to [2.63]
2. Bayern Munich, champion of LaLiga de Campeones 22/23 a [7.00]
3. PSG win this edition of the Champions League [8.00]
4. Liverpool wins the Champions League 22/23 a [7.00]
5. Napoli win the Champions League 22/23 to [7.00]
6. Real Madrid, champion of the Champions League 22/23 a [12.00]
