With the transfer market now up and running, teams are hurrying up to fill their shopping carts with some of the best and most expensive players in the world.
Here we will look at the top ten teams that have spent the most money in recent years. With a lot of regulations coming into effect in order to control the amount of spending big teams do, it will be interesting to see who tops the table.
It would only make sense that a team like Manchester City would be number one in the table after all the money they have invested into the team in recent seasons, especially after rewarding David Silva for the great season he had last Premier League season by extending his contract to a five year deal that is worth a tremendous £52 million.
It's not the blue side of Manchester that leads the spending in the Premier League, but the two spanish giants of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Barcelona not only tops the table when it comes to talking about the best team in the world, but they also managed to top the table when it comes to spending the most money on the best players in the world.
It seems that it will continue like that as they have just signed Valencia left-back and Spanish International Jordi Alba. Last season they also signed David Villa and Ibrahim Afellay, two very high quality players, with two very high salaries as well.
It seems that it won't stop there as new manager Tito Villanova is looking too get the services of Spanish international Javi Martinez and are also in the race to sign Dutch forward Robin van Persie.
Los Blancos followed their eternal rivals in the table as the second team with the highest salary expense in the world of football. This is not something new for a club like Real Madrid as they have always been known for being one of the richest teams in football.
Let's not forget that they made that monster signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, and Karim Benzema three summers ago. Nothing changed when the self procalimed "chosen one" arrived at the Bernabue as they kept spending more and more money on World class players.
They have already made what seems to be their first summer signing with croatian international Luka Modric.
Barcelona and Real Madrid are the only two Spanish teams on the list. Manchester City is the biggest spender out of the five english sides on the list. The Italians couldn't be left out as three of their teams are on this list.
Football's big-spenders top 10 in full:
1) Barcelona - average yearly salary £5.26m
2) Real Madrid - £4.72m
3) Manchester City - £4.48m
4) Chelsea - £4.12m
5) AC Milan - £3.7m
6) Inter Milan - £3.45m
7) Manchester United- £3.34m
8)Arsenal - £3.2m
9) Liverpool - £3.16m
10) Juventus - £2.84m
