Who spends the most, and who gets the most from player sales?

By Tony Attwood Some figures have been released by CIES Football Observatory concerning transfer expenditure over recent years.  Unfortunately as I have found before, the CIES figures are not complete and have a rather strange basis for their analysis – in this case they only record purchases between clubs in the top five leagues. Also …

Reasons to be cheerful are slipping away like snow in spring

By Tony Attwood With enough Americans voting for a man who doesn’t believe climate change is happening, and that his political opponent should be put in prison, it would be nice to have a bit of positive news from Arsenal just to keep us going, but as you’ve probably heard Alexis Sánchez has been injured in Chile. …