{"id":150993,"date":"2019-09-10T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150993"},"modified":"2019-09-10T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:43:29","slug":"manchester-city-becomes-first-team-to-assemble-e1billion-squad-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150993","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City becomes first team to assemble \u20ac1billion squad [Top 10]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Man-City-sign-new-goalkeeper-from-LaLiga-agree-\u00a3107m-fee-for-defender.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City have become the first team in football history, to spend more than \u20ac1billion in assembling their squad.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Swiss-based CIES Football Observatory, showed that the Premier League champions spent \u20ac1.014bn on their group of players.<\/p>\n<p>French champions Paris Saint-Germain were second, having spent \u20ac913million and Spain\u2019s Real Madrid third with \u20ac902m.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United (\u20ac751m) have the second-most expensive squad in the Premier League, followed by Champions League winners Liverpool (\u20ac639m).<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 clubs to spend the most on current squad:<\/p>\n<p>1. Manchester City (\u20ac1.014bn)<br \/>\n2. Paris Saint-Germain (\u20ac913m)<br \/>\n3. Real Madrid (\u20ac902m)<br \/>\n4. Manchester United (\u20ac751m)<br \/>\n5. Juventus (\u20ac719m)<br \/>\n6. Barcelona (\u20ac697m)<br \/>\n7. Liverpool (\u20ac639m)<br \/>\n8. Chelsea (\u20ac561m)<br \/>\n9. Atletico Madrid (\u20ac550m)<br \/>\n10. Arsenal (\u20ac498m)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have become the first team in football history, to spend more than \u20ac1billion in assembling their squad. Data from the Swiss-based CIES Football Observatory, showed that the Premier League champions spent \u20ac1.014bn on their group of players. French champions Paris Saint-Germain were second, having spent \u20ac913million and Spain\u2019s Real Madrid third with \u20ac902m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427,5006,10175,5278],"class_list":["post-150993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-guardiola","tag-man-city","tag-real-madrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}