NO CLUB can match Manchester City for transfer expenditure over the last decade, the Premier League champions splashing out £1.5BILLION on new players. With the English transfer window shut and European market following suit soon, the continent-wide money table makes for very interesting reading. According to Transfermarkt’s database, City have signed 278 players since the start of the 2009/10 season to help make them Europe’s biggest spenders. Despite Pep Guardiola’s claims that his side are not ludicrously rich, the majority of their splurges have come in the past three years. Kevin de Bruyne, Rodri, Riyad Mahrez, Joao Cancelo, Aymeric Laporte, Raheem Sterling, Benjamin Mendy, John Stones and Kyle Walker all clocked in at over £50m to help City win the last two league titles. With just £452m banked in sales during this period, the club have a negative balance of £1.185bn that far outweighs any of their rivals’.Barcelona and Real Madrid make up the spending podium with expenditure of £1.33bn and £1.24bn, respectively, both on around 130 players. This indicates a quality over quantity approach that has enabled the Clasico rivals to win all but one of the La Liga tiles in the past ten years – with their sales…