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Jack Grealish’s £100m transfer makes Man City Europe’s most expensively-assembled squad.. as winless Arsenal make top 10

PREMIER LEAGUE champions Manchester City have the most expensive squad in Europe.

That is according to findings from CIES, who claim City's team is valued at an eye-watering £926million.

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Six Premier League teams are among the 10 most expensive squads in Europe

This comes after the Citizens splashed £100m for Jack Grealish and broke the British transfer record this summer.

Rivals Manchester United, however, are not far behind in second place as they have closed the gap by £49m.

This has been a very busy transfer window for United as they signed the likes of Jadon Sancho for £73m, Raphael Varane for £42m and club legend Cristiano Ronaldo for £19.8m.

The top 10 is consisted of the Prem's big six, as the Red Devils and City are joined by Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham.

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The Blues - who splashed £97.5m on Romelu Lukaku this summer - are fifth ahead of the Reds, who occupy sixth place.

Arsenal make the top 10, having splashed £542m on their current squad... despite being out of Europe altogether and winless in the Premier League.

Paris Saint-Germain completed some spectacular transfer business this summer as they landed some of the world's biggest stars.


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But the likes of Georginio Wijnaldum, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Sergio Ramos and six-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi came in as free agents.

Despite that, they still sit third, with a squad already consisting of £198m Neymar and £162m Kylian Mbappe.

Real Madrid (fourth), Juventus (seventh) and Barcelona (eighth) complete the chart's top 10.

Spanish champions Atletico Madrid are 11th ahead of Everton, Bayern Munich, Napoli and Leicester.

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