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source: extraimage.infoManchester City have assembled the first billion euro squad, says a report by the CIES Football Observatory.
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source: extraimage.infoPep Guardiola’s side were the first team to win back-to-back Premier League titles since Manchester United 10 years ago.
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source: extraimage.infoCity, who have benefitted hugely since the Abu Dhabi group takeover in 2008, spent (1.014bn/£906m) on their current players with Paris St-Germain (913m euros) and Real Madrid (902m euros) in second and third.
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source: extraimage.infoThe Premier League champions’ squad is worth 32 times the value of Norwich’s. Manchester United have the second most expensive English squad (751m euros).
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source: extraimage.infoCIES, the football statistics research group based in Switzerland, looked at the senior players in each team in all four of Europe’s biggest leagues – Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga.
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source: extraimage.infoPaderborn, promoted to the German top flight in the summer, were found to have the cheapest squad, valued at 4m euros (£3.57m).