5) Aston Villa (€-424m)

Villa

Some may be surprised to see the Midlands club make the top five but they have been big spenders since Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens (two multi-billionaires) took over the club in the summer of 2018.

They have overseen promotion to the Premier League, and significant investment in the playing squad during the last three and a half years to cement themselves once again in the top flight of English football.


David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.