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The initial billion euro squad has been constructed by manchester City, says a report by the CIES Football Observatory.
City, who’ve benefitted hugely since the Abu Dhabi band takeover in 2008, spent (1.014bn/#906m) on their existing players using Paris St-Germain (913m euros) and Real Madrid (902m euros) at second and third.
The Premier League champions’ team is worth 32 times the value of Norwich’s.
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Manchester United are the 2nd priciest British group (751m euros).
CIES, the soccer statistics research team based in Switzerland, looked in all four of Europe’s biggest leagues – Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Premier League.
Paderborn, promoted to the German top flight in the summertime, were discovered to have the lowest priced group, appreciated at 4m euros (Number 3.57m).
Club / group value in euros
1. Manchester City – 1.014 billion
2. Paris St-Germain – 913m
3. Real Madrid – 902m
4. Manchester United – 751m
5. Juventus – 719m
6. Barcelona – 697m
7. Liverpool – 639m
8. Chelsea – 561m
9. Atletico Madrid – 550m
10. Arsenal – 498m
Selected others
11. Everton – 486m
12. Tottenham Hotspur – 465m
19. Leicester City – 312m
21. West Ham United – 259m
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