But while rivals such as Manchester United and Arsenal often have difficulty raising capital in the transfer market, Man City’s net spending in recent years has been relatively low, thanks to selling players at low prices. Price matching.
The defending Premier League champion has earned a significant amount of money by selling famous stars. The sales of players such as Raheem Sterling, Ferran Torres, Gabriel Jesus, Leroy Sane, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Riyad Mahrez in recent years have helped raise transfer funds for Guardiola to refresh his squad, bringing in players such as Jack Grealish and Josko Gvardiol.
They have also raised nearly half a billion dollars by selling academy graduates, often for relatively small fees, but it all adds up to a truly impressive figure. Cole Palmer, who is set to complete a £45 million transfer to Chelsea, will become Man City’s most expensive academy product of all time. Other players, such as Romeo Lavia, Angelino and Brahim Diaz, have also brought in significant amounts of money for the Etihad Stadium team.
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There will be debate as to how many of these players are homegrown – Pedro Porro and Gavin Bazunu are two examples of players who made their first team debuts elsewhere before joining City – but all They both honed their skills in Man City’s youth squad, so they will all count.
Twitter page @BlueCityBrain has statistics the entire £442m City have received by selling academy players since Guardiola took over in 2016. below is specific list.
Cole Palmer – Chelsea – £45 million
Kelechi Iheanacho – Leicester – £25 million
Romeo Lavia – Southampton – 22.5 million pounds
Brahim Diaz – Real Madrid – 22 million pounds
Angelino – RB Leipzig – £21.3 million
Jadon Sancho – Borussia Dortmund (plus sale fee to Man Utd) – 21.2 million pounds
James Trafford – Burnley – 19 million pounds
Pedro Porro – Sporting Lisbon (plus sale fee to Tottenham) – £17.4 million
Carlos Borges – Ajax – 17.2 million pounds
Douglas Luiz – Aston Villa – £15 million
Gavin Bazunu – Southampton – £15 million
Shea Charles – Southampton – £15 million
Angus Gunn – Southampton – £13.5 million
Enes Unal – Villarreal – 12 million pounds
Lukas Nmecha – Wolfsburg – £11.1 million
Jack Harrison – Leeds United – £11 million
Rabbi Matondo – Schalke – £10.25 million
Aaron Mooy – Huddersfield – £10 million
Samuel Udozie – Southampton – £10 million
Uriel Antuna – Chivas – £10 million
Felix Correira – Juventus – 9.5 million pounds
Ivan Ilic – Hellas Verona – 9.5 million pounds
Jason Denayer – Lyon – £9 million
Pablo Maffeo – Stuttgart – 8.8 million pounds
Juan Larios – Southampton – 6 million pounds
Darko Gyabi – Leeds United – £5 million
Sancho is a product of Man City.
Kou Itakura – Borussia Monchenladbach – 5 million pounds
Olivier Ntcham – Celtic – £4.5m
Geronimo Rulli – Real Sociedad – 4 million pounds
Seko Fofana – Udinese – 3.8 million pounds
Manu Garcia – Sporting Gijon – 3.6 million pounds
Aro Muric – Burnley – £3 million
Bersant Celina – Swansea – £3 million
Joshua Kayode – Shakhtar Donetsk – 3 million pounds
Patrick Roberts – Sunderland – £3 million
Taylor Richards – Brighton & Hove Albion – £2.5m
Benjamin Garre – Racing Club – £2 million
Tosin Adarabioyo – Fulham – £2 million
Thierry Ambrose – Metz – £1.8 million
Ruben Sobrino – Alaves – £1.75 million
Dire Mebude – Westerlo – £1.65 million
Pablo Mari – Flamengo – £1.3 million
CJ Egan-Riley – Burnley – £1 million
Jeremie Frimpong – Celtic – £1 million
Charlie McNeill – Man Utd – £750,000
Terence Kongolo – Hereenveen – £750,000
Tyler Fletcher – Man Utd – £630,000
Luca Barrington – Brighton – £500,000
Harvey Griffiths – Wolves – £350,000.
Thanh Vu | 21:52 August 31, 2023
