adminLONDON. — This summer the epicentre of the soccer transfer window — as the English Premier League would like to portray itself — has been usurped. The biggest deals, so far, have belonged to France and to Spain, and even if Gareth Bale were to leave Tottenham Hotspur he would also be leaving England.
There is money to spend. It is just that the new-found spending power of France’s Ligue 1, concentrated on two clubs, and the perennial financial muscle and cache of Spain’s big two have held sway.
It has, however, led Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman of Manchester United to question why some of the most-sought after players in European football such as Radamel Falcao and Edinson Cavani — have joined Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain who have dominated the market.
Woodward said that such deals “have clearly put inflation into the football system again, counter, I guess, to what FFP (Financial Fair Play) wants” while insisting that United had the “financial strength that we can pay top wages in the world, top transfer fees”.
Woodward added that the bigger issue for United was whether manager David Moyes wanted to sign such players – with Monaco, for example, having also acquired the Porto pair of Joao Moutinho and James Rodriguez who were previously linked to moves to bigger clubs such as Chelsea. — The Telegraph.
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