La Liga Transfers

Real Madrid stopped looking for the new Cristiano Ronaldo some time ago. After the departure of the Portuguese in 2018, young players have arrived at the “Santiago Bernabéu”, carefully selected by Madrid’s army of talent scouts, as well as footballers brought up from their own academy. “La Fábrica” has continued to supply the first team with players on a permanent basis. Some have confirmed, others have not. The latter brought hundreds of millions of euros into Real Madrid’s coffers through their sale. The examples of footballers such as Achraf Hakimi, Reguilón and Óscar Rodríguez are eloquent, the three of them bringing in a total of €93 million!

Real Madrid officials spent €80 million this summer to bring in Aurélien Tchouaméni from AS Monaco. The 22-year-old defensive midfielder fits perfectly in Carlo Ancelotti’s team, making the Brazilian Casemiro, who has left for the Premier League to join Manchester United, a thing of the past. With a market value of around €40 million, German international Antonio Rüdiger joined Real Madrid for free this summer!

FC Barcelona spent over €150 million this summer to sign just three players: Brazilian Raphinha from Leeds United – €58 million, Frenchman Jules Koundé from Sevilla – €50 million and Polish super-striker Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich – €45 million. Two other high value players, Ivorian Franck Kessié – AC Milan and Héctor Bellerín – Arsenal, plus experienced Marcos Alonso Danish Andreas Christensen – both Chelsea have arrived for free at the Camp Nou.
Barcelona gave up after just seven months, somewhat surprisingly, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the hero of the last El Clásico (20 March 2022 Real – Barcelona 0-4).

Atlético Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia did not make any big transfers this summer.
Atlético transferred Argentine right-back Nahuel Molina, 22, from Udinese Udine for €20 million, is the only major transfer made by Diego Simeone’s side.

FC Sevilla bought two central defenders, Tanguy Nianzou from FC Bayern (€20m) and Marcão from Galatasaray (€12m), brought in Adnan Januzaj – the eternal Belgian hopeful, Isco – Real Madrid for free and loaned Alex Telles – Manchester United and Kasper Dolberg – Nice.

Betis has strengthened its offensive by transferring two players. One is the experienced but capricious Brazilian Willian José, 30, who has convinced during his six-month loan spell, brought in for €12m from Real Sociedad. The second, also Brazilian, Luiz Henrique, was discovered at Fluminense and brought in for €8m.

Pleasantly surprising the deals were made by Real Sociedad this summer, which in addition to the €12 million sale of Willian José, made an impressive €70 million sale of young Swedish striker Alexander Isak, to Newcastle United, an excellent deal for the Basque side.

Valencia, who bought Portuguese midfielder André Almeida, 22 (€8m from Vitória Guimarães) and Spanish striker Hugo Duro, 22 (€4m from Getafe), cashed in on €54.6m for four players: Gonçalo Guedes, 25 (32.6 million – Wolverhampton Wanderers), Carlos Soler, 25 (18 million – Paris Saint-Germain), Maxi Gómez, 26 (3 million – Trabzonspor) and Jasper Cillessen, 33 (1 million – NEC Nijmegen.