Biggest transfer market spenders in Europe this summer

Manchester City (£100 million)

Alvaro Negredo of Manchester City during the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester City and Hull City at the Etihad Stadium on August 31, 2013 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

In fourth place, a whisker ahead of PSG is Manchester City, who have spent £100 million under new manager Manuel Pellegrini. They bought five players in this window, and four are attacking reinforcements. With close to £22 million each spent on bringing Stevan Jovetic and Alvaro Negredo from Fiorentina and Sevilla respectively, another £17 million was dished out to Sevilla for Negredo’s teammate Jesus Navas. With Kompany injured, they also managed to snap up Martin Demichelis from Atletico Madrid as cover. But their biggest summer signing was, in fact, a backup for Yaya Toure. Fernandinho was signed from Shakhtar to reduce the Ivorian’s workload.