Manchester City have smashed the British transfer record to sign Jack Grealish for a fee of 117 million euros, which has taken Pep Guardiola‘s total spending on incoming players to over one billion euros since taking over as the club’s coach in 2016.
Grealish is now the sixth most expensive player in the history of world football, although that is set to not last long with Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane potentially moving too this summer.
Despite Pep Guardiola’s incredible mental-arithmetic in trying to explain how the club could afford to sign Grealish, there is no doubt that everyone knows the Premier League champions have a bottomless pit of resources.
Since Guardiola‘s arrival, the one billion euros spent has seen a whole host of players arrive into the club, mostly in defence, and it has taken Guardiola’s total career spending to just over 1.5 billion euros.
No coach has ever spent more money, or had more money spent for them, in the history of the sport, and there has to be a direct correlation between this and the standard of football his team’s play.
