This summer, the Premier League in the scale of investment in Europe's four major leagues to realize the overwhelming advantage, in which the role of the "second tier" can not be ignored. The newly-promoted Nottingham Forest's investment amounted to 152 million euros, second only to Chelsea, ranked second in the entire summer transfer market. This not only stole the thunder of the Premier League's top five, but even surpassed all the giants in Europe. Although the history of the Premier League also has a promotion horse summer investment of more than 100 million, such as Aston Villa, Fulham and Leeds United, but Nottingham Forest's investment is crazy. Currently, the team has signed 17 new recruits, which is 5.5 times the team's all-time summer investment record, which is mind-boggling. The transfer fees of six of the new signings exceeded €10 million, with Gibbs-White, Awoniyi and N-Williams ranking in the top three of the team's all-time record bidders, twice setting a new record for the team's all-time record bidders.
The Premier League's new 3-year broadcasting contract this season has total domestic and international sales of 10.4 billion pounds. Even the lowest-ranked teams will get a share of €125 million, with the champions receiving €207 million. For Nottingham Forest, relegation success would mean at least €125 million in TV broadcast fee income, not including matchday and commercial income. Nottingham Forest is aware of the importance of returning to the Championship, and given that other promotion rivals and relegation rivals are not investing much in reinforcements, the 152 million euros seems to be an exaggeration but is actually reasonable. And, Nottingham Forest's reinforcements continue!
As well as Nottingham Forest, West Ham United, Wolves and Brentford have also set team records for summer investment. West Ham and Wolves signed Paqueta and M Nunez respectively to become this summer's new markers, while Brentford's all-time markers took the top two spots.
Leeds United have invested €105.6 million, second only to the €106.8 million they will spend on their return to the Premier League in the summer of 2020, but Leeds United's summer transfer window has not yet closed and there is still the potential to set a new team record.
Leeds United have brought in 21-year-old starlet Aarons from Red Bull Salzburg for a transfer fee of €32.84 million, making him the team's new all-time leading bidder.
Despite the European summer market being highly anticipated by the Saudi royal family's huge investment, Newcastle United is constrained by the Financial Fairness Act due to its poor record, lack of European dividends and commercial value. As a result, its seasonal revenue was even less than that of Leicester City, West Ham United, Wolves, Everton and Aston Villa, failing to reach the €200 million threshold. Nevertheless, the Saudi royal family spent 70 million + 5 million euros on the young Swedish senior center forward Isak before the summer window closed, setting two records in the team's history of summer investment and attracting the top bidder. Lille's 22-year-old young center back Portman also ranked fourth in the team's all-time price list. Newcastle United rejected high-priced bids from Manchester United and Chelsea for midfielder Guimarães in order to qualify for Europe in the new season. Isaac's transfer fee of 70 million euros could also be ranked fourth this summer, comparable to Nunez and Casemiro, and even more than the Premier League's first price of Harland.
Abu's exit and the entry of Saudi royal capital is just the tip of the iceberg of the Premier League's capital influx. Chelsea and Manchester City have jumped up by relying on foreign capital, while Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have achieved a leap in revenue by refurbishing their stadiums, which in turn has changed the landscape of the Premier League to form the top six. At the same time, the strong capital of TV broadcasting fees has given West Ham United and Wolves the ambition to challenge for European qualification.
Overseas capital has allowed the EPL to form a six-team title race, and at the same time has ushered in a change in the landscape for the "middle class". In addition to Everton, Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Ham United and Newcastle United have formed a new large-scale market purchasing power. Although they are not yet able to shake the position of the top six, but also for their respective clubs to provide greater revenue space, narrowing the power gap with the top six provides the possibility. More importantly, this will allow the Premier League to take advantage of the talent advantage in all three levels of European competition by virtue of the capital advantage. The rise of the "second tier" gives the Premier League a group advantage that none of the four European leagues can match.
