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Premier League spending demands prizes
World Soccer
|October 2025
Taking into account substantial return from sales, England's six Champions League representatives still saw a net outlay of £831m between them in the summer transfer window.
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Chelsea, such efficient traders, were actually in profit but the likes of Arsenal (£244m) and Liverpool (£229m) went big. The bookmakers are so confident of a Premier League club winning the trophy with the big ears that they offered only evens on an English triumph in the Budapest final as t
This story is from the October 2025 edition of World Soccer.
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