{"id":1322,"date":"2026-08-16T06:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:44:40","slug":"liverpools-450m-spending-spree-psgs-record-breaking-summer-real-madrids-galacticos-and-the-craziest-single-club-transfer-windows-ever-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s \u00a3450m spending spree, PSG&#8217;s record-breaking summer, Real Madrid&#8217;s Galacticos and the craziest single-club transfer windows ever &#8211; ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>The advent of the Saudi Pro League&#8217;s sudden emergence as a force in the global transfer market, Al-Hilal&#8217;s 2023 summer window was nothing short of remarkable as the Gulf State&#8217;s sovereign Public Investment Fund bankrolled a net spend of \u00a3302m on eight new signings to put the rest of the world on notice.<\/p>\n<p>The influx of talent was, of course, headlined by the ill-fated \u20ac90m (\u00a377m\/$99m) arrival of Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain, while he was joined by the likes of Ruben Neves, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Malcom, as a host of big names were lured by the riches on offer in Saudi Arabia. Although they would inevitably go on to win the league, Al-Hilal made a huge loss on Neymar, whose contract was terminated after an injury-plagued 18 months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/game-changing-transfer-windows-ranked\/blt7a683e926ddf567a\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advent of the Saudi Pro League&#8217;s sudden emergence as a force in the global&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}