The popular adage may say that the trees do not go up to the sky, it starts to look like it, however. According to the Specialized Site Transfermarkt, the clubs of the Premier League spent more than three billion pounds (3.5 billion euros), more than all the other European championships gathered, on the summer transfer market, which ended on Monday September 1. Bringing closer to the 2.4 billion pounds released last year: a phenomenal leap, which cannot be explained by the increase in TV rights of 4 % which saw Sky Sports and TNT Sports bring their effort to the tune of 1.95 billion euros per season for the next four years. By way of comparison, those in Ligue 1 had been sold 500 million euros last season, a sum which was not even fully paid after the
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