WOW! Pep Guardiola signing Kylian Mbappe would take him over £1BILLION career spending this summer
- He has already paid out £221.7m in transfer fees and more is to come
- Should City buy Kylian Mbappe, Guardiola's career spending would top £1billion
Pep
Guardiola might be regarded as one of the very best coaches in the
world but he certainly knows how to spend a pretty penny as well.
The Spaniard has enjoyed immense success during his relatively brief
career in management prior to arriving at Manchester City but it hasn't
come at a cheap rate.
That haul of three La Liga titles, three Bundesliga crowns and a brace of Champions League victories came at tremendous cost.
Pep Guardiola's career spending could go beyond £1billion over the course of the summer
Guardiola poses with Benjamin Mendy, his £52million signing from Monaco
And in pursuing silverware with his
latest club, Pep could tip his spending scales over £1billion this
summer, should his pursuit of Monaco starlet Kylian Mbappe come off.
It's an extraordinary total to have racked up over the course of nine short summers in the dugout.
Guardiola's shopping habits began when he moved into the top job at the Nou Camp in the summer of 2008.
He
shelled out £81m in his first transfer window - including impressive
value for money in the shape of £4.5m Gerard Pique and £11m Seydou Keita
and some more questionable purchase such as £14m Martin Caceres and
£6.5m Henrique.
The £59m capture of
Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2009 remains Guardiola's single biggest outlay,
though snapping up Mbappe from under Real Madrid's noses in the next few
weeks will add £100m to that record.
When he was at Barcelona, Guardiola signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Inter Milan for £59m
Arturo Vidal (right) was Guardiola's second-biggest signing during his time at Bayern Munich
John Stones cost Guardiola and City £47m when he arrived from Everton last summer
During his four years in the top job in Catalonia, Guardiola got his president to write out cheques to the tune of £289.5m.
At Bayern, his spending was more restrained but big-name purchases were still the order of the day.
Douglas Costa, Medhi Benatia and Thiago all cost more than £20m. Arturo Vidal and Mario Gotze fetched fees beyond £30m.
Only once in nine years in charge of the continents top clubs has Guardiola spent less than £50m in a single season. That came in 2014-15, when his overall outgoings of £44.5m included a bargain basement £8m for Xabi Alonso.
Since swapping Bavaria for Greater Manchester, however, the 46-year-old has discovered the knack of cash-splashing once again.
In just two-and-a-half transfer windows at the Etihad, Guardiola has used Sheik Mansour's treasure chest with abandon, spending a grand total of £400.4m on 16 players - almost half of his overall outlay across his coaching career.
And that's without Mbappe.
Xabi Alonso was a bargain signing at £8m when he moved to Bayern from Real Madrid
GUARDIOLA'S SPEND: SEASON BY SEASON
2008-09 - Barcelona
Martin Caceres (Villarreal, £14m)
Seydou Keita (Sevilla, £11m)
Gerard Pique (Manchester Utd, £4.5)
Dani Alves (Sevilla, £30m)
Aleksandr Hleb (Arsenal, £15m)
Henrique (Desportivo Brasil, £6.m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £81m
Dani Alves (left) was among Guardiola's first signings when he was made Barcelona boss
2009-10 - Barcelona
Maxwell (Inter Milan, £4m)
Keirrison (Palmeiras, £12m)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan, £59m)
Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Shakhtar Donetsk, £21m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £96m
Full back Maxwell only cost Guardiola £4m when he moved to the Nou Camp from Inter
2010-11 - Barcelona
David Villa (Valencia, £34m)
Adriano (Sevilla, £8m)
Javier Macherano (Liverpool, £17m)
Ibrahim Afellay (PSV Eindhoven, £2.5m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £61.5m
2011-12 - Barcelona
Alexis Sanchez (Udinese, £22m)
Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal, £29m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £51m
Guardiola bought Alexis Sanchez from Udinese for £22m in the summer of 2011
2013-14 - Bayern Munich
Mario Gotze (Borussia Dortmund, £35.4m)
Thiago (Barcelona, £21.5m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £56.9m
Mario Gotze commanded a fee of £35.4m when he moved to Bayern from Borussia Dortmund
2014-15 - Bayern Munich
Juan Bernat (Valencia, £8.5m)
Pepe Reina (Liverpool, £2.5m)
Medhi Benatia (Roma, £23m)
Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid, £8m)
Sinan Kurt (Borussia Monchengladbach, £2.5m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £44.5m
Medhi Benatia never quite justified his £23m price tag during his time at Bayern
2015-16 - Bayern Munich
Douglas Costa (Shakhtar Donetsk, £25.5m)
Sven Ulreich (Stuttgart, £3m)
Joshua Kimmich (Stuttgart, £7m)
Arturo Vidal (Juventus, £31.25)
Kingsley Coman (Juventus, £5.5m loan fee)
Serdar Tasci (Spartak Moscow, £2m loan fee)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £74.25m
Guardiola sent a £5.5m loan fee to Juventus for the services of Kingsley Coman in Bavaria
2016-17 - Manchester City
Ilkay Gundogan (Borussia Dortmund, £21m)
Nolito (Celta Vigo, £14m)
Oleksandr Zinchenko (Ufa, £2m)
Leroy Sane (Schalke, £42m)
Marlos Moreno (Atletico Nacional, £4.5m)
Gerónimo Rulli (Deportivo Maldonado, £4m)
John Stones (Everton, £47m)
Pablo Marí (Gimnastic, £200,000)
Claudio Bravo (Barcelona, £17m)
Gabriel Jesus (Palmeiras, £27m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £178.7m
Leroy Sane (right) signed for Guardiola last summer during his early days at City
2017-18 - Manchester City
Ederson (Benfica, £35m)
Bernardo Silva (Monaco, £43m)
Kyle Walker (Tottenham, £54m)
Douglas Luiz (Vasco da Gama, £10.7m)
Danilo (Real Madrid, £27m)
Benjamin Mendy (Monaco, £52m)
ANNUAL TOTAL (so far): £221.7m
GRAND SPENDING TOTAL (so far): £865.55million
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