The TV deals for the Premier League clubs give them a massive advantage.

None of the other major football leagues, whether in Europe or elsewhere, come remotely close to what the English top tier generate.

Not only through the domestic UK rights deals with Sky Sports, TNT Sport and Amazon, but also the ever increasing riches from the overseas deals, with the EPL now firmly established as the ‘world’s’ league.

You only have to look at the spending once again in this latest summer 2024 transfer window, the Premier League clubs collectively outspending any other country’s clubs by a serious margin.

So when it comes to how much squads around the world have cost to put together, no prizes for guessing where most of the more expensive ones are.

CIES Football Observatory have published a new report, showing the the top 100 clubs in the world who have invested the most on transfer fees (totals showing with and without add-ons) to recruit players currently in their squad, all figures in Euros.

Transfer fees committed to assemble the squad (€ Million) – Squads as on 3/09/2024. 

As you can see, all of the top five are Premier League clubs.

With 11 PL clubs in the top eighteen.

Newcastle United are placed ninth in this list of most expensive squads and whilst any report such as this is estimated to a large extent, they will have used the same criteria for all.

So NUFC estimated to have spent €683m (£575m) on the current squad.

The usual six Premier League clubs within the top seven, incredible amounts spent and that is on top of all the other advantages they had over Newcastle United thanks largely to a decade and a half of Mike Ashley.