PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN have spent an astonishing £1.1BILLION on transfers alone to reach the Champions League final.
The French giants have openly admitted they’ll do whatever it takes to win the Champions League.
PSG have spent over £1bn in their quest to win the Champions League
PSG have spent a small fortune trying to win their first Champions LeagueCredit: Getty – Pool
And they certainly haven’t been afraid to open the cheque book either.
Incredibly, PSG have spent over £1bn in order to reach the final.
The Ligue 1 champions have only ever TWICE reached the Champions League semi-finals – this season and way back in 1994-95.
After a long European – and domestic – drought, PSG were taken over by their current Qatari owners in 2011.
And since then, they have spent a whopping £1.1bn on mega-money transfers such as Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
Neymar cost a world record £198million when brought in from Barcelona, while ex-Monaco man Mbappe is the second-priciest player in history at £162m.
And there are three more purchases of more than £50m apiece.
PSG’s big spending begun following their 2011 takeoverCredit: AP:Associated Press
Edinson Cavani – who left the club on a free this summer – cost £55m from Napoli in 2013-14.
Mauro Icardi made his loan move from Inter Milan permanent this summer in a deal worth £52m.
And David Luiz cost PSG £50m on leaving Chelsea in 2014-15.
But even before that, PSG were spending the mega-bucks from the get-go under new ownership.
In the first summer, they spent £38m on Javier Pastore from Palermo – with Lucas Moura (£36m, Sao Paulo) and Thiago Silva (£35m, AC Milan) joining a year later.
Leandro Paredes, who joined from Zenit in 2018-19, also cost £35m.
All in all, PSG have signed 43 players since their takeover, with the bill – before wages – costing £1.1bn.
So far that’s only got them into the final though.
After beating RB Leipzig 3-0 in the semis, they will take on Bayern Munich or Lyon in the final on Sunday.
Will that £1.1bn spending finally win them their first ever European crown?
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
