Football Clubs With the Highest Net Spend in the World Since 2016

While many clubs focus on building players they will later sell, some clubs focus on buying ready-made players. A few have been able to balance both, while others have achieved both but still buy more than they sell. That is, their net spend is relatively high despite their propensity to sell.

Since 2016, Manchester United has been the club with the highest net spend in the world. The English Premier Leagueclub's net spending in the last seven years currently stands at €902 million.

Second on the list is Chelsea. The Blues have spent more than €600 million since Todd Boehly took over at the club. However, they have been unable to sell enough players. This is why their net spending in the last seven years stands at €830 million.

The third club with the highest net spend in the world since 2016 is Manchester City. Despite the way the Cityzens have been spending on players in the last few years, they have also offloaded players. In the last two seasons, Pep Guardiola's side has sold Gabriel Jesus, Oleksandr Zinchenko, and Raheem Sterling. This has reduced their net spend, which currently stands at €667 million.

Fourth on the list is Arsenal. Since Mikel Arteta took charge of the club, the board has supported him in the transfer market. This has raised the net spending of the Gunners for the past seven years. After signing the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Aaron Ramsdale, and Martin Odegaard in the last couple of seasons, Arsenal's net spend currently stands at €638 million.

Below is the full list of the top ten clubs with the highest net spend in world football since 2016:

Inter scored two early goals through Edin Dzeko and Henrikh Mkhitaryan and will take a big advantage into the second leg back at the San Siro on Tuesday.

Pioli, however, praised his team's resilience as they bid to stay on course to win the European Cup for the eighth time, 16 years after their last triumph in 2007.

He told Amazon Prime Video: 'We will try to do better in the second leg. I think they got the better of the tackles and second balls. The match went badly from a tactical and mental point of view.

'We have to start from the attitude of the second half. We had the chances to get the game back on track.

'We will have to put in an absolutely different performance from tonight's. For the boys right now there is disappointment but also awareness of overturning the second leg.'

Meanwhile, former Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori insisted all was not lost for Milan.

'Yeah, obviously we're disappointed. Just the way we started the game, conceding two goals early on like that,' Tomori told BT Sport.

'It was difficult but it is only the first game. We can't let our heads drop.

'Obviously we're disappointed because this was the home leg in front of our fans and we wanted to take a positive result into the second leg but we know if we play with the right intensity, we can put them in a bit of bother.'

The loss to Inter was Milan's third defeat by their neighbours in a single season, something they have not experienced since the 1994-95 campaign.

Milan secured a 3-2 win over Inter in Serie A in September before suffering back-to-back defeats, 3-0 in the Italian Super Cup and 1-0 in Serie A.

Last season's Italian champions Milan have won only two of their last six domestic matches and are just outside the top four in the standings with four games left.