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Chinese Super League Clubs Spent More Per Player Than European Elite

Data revealed that China "spent more money per player than any other country during last month’s transfer window," according to Matt Hughes of the LONDON TIMES. With 30 transfers yet to be processed by FIFA’s Transfer Matching System, Chinese clubs "have moved up to third in the table of total spending behind Spain and England, the market leaders." When all the data has been assembled, China "will move up to second" after Jackson Martínez joined Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande for an Asian record fee of £31M ($45M). Before the Martínez deal, CSL clubs had spent £33M ($48M) on 10 players last month, compared with £120M ($175M) on 115 players by English clubs and £42M ($61.3M) on 104 players by their Spanish counterparts. With many of those 30 outstanding deals involving Chinese clubs and their transfer window open until Feb. 26, "the level of spending may still increase." Global transfer spending was down by 27% from 12 months ago to £342M ($499M). English clubs "spent almost as much on new players last month as the next four biggest European leagues combined" -- they spent £100M ($146M) -- although FIFA said that English spending was still down by 17% (LONDON TIMES, 2/4).

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