July 8, 2020 at 9:50 PM by Thomas
It’s Wednesday night, the half-time transfer window in Ligue 1.
This is something new, improvised by global health circumstances: this summer 2020, the French clubs transfer window has its own half-time. Whistled this Wednesday July 8 at midnight, it will last one month until the resumption normally scheduled for August 10. There is an explanation that France has not resumed its championships, the Football League (LFP) wished to be able to advance the authorized window. What she got in return for a break observed in July, when European neighbors start their market.
PSG, OM, ASSE, Nantes… only signed purchase options
At this stage, the Ligue 1 clubs are not all in the same order of march. Some have largely anticipated the start of the school year by recruiting massively. And effectively, at least on paper, on the side of the OGC Nice; clearly the most active club of this month of June. The Aiglons have invested more than 21 million euros for four players, they are the second biggest spenders in the championship, even the first if we take into account the fact that Mauro Icardi was already at PSG last season, but about him the call option has just been exercised. The Argentine is therefore a summer rookie, like Toko Ekambi at OL, Moses Simon in Nantes, Kolodziejczak at ASSE, Alvaro Gonzalez at OM….
Most expensive rookie at Stade Rennais, transfer record at Angers
Apart from them, Stade Rennais signed the most expensive rookie at the start of the summer in Ligue 1, with Martin Terrier, who went from Lyon to Brittany, against a transfer fee of twelve million euros without bonuses (on this subject, moreover, the sums expressed below are without additional variables when they exist in the transaction). As for SCO Angers and FC Lorient, they broke the most expensive death transfer record, by respectively recruiting the former Girondins goalkeeper, Paul Bernardoni (7.5 M €), and Clermont Foot striker Adrian Grbic (€ 9 million).
What L1 clubs spent after a month of transfer window
Paris SG = € 50m (Icardi)
OGC Nice = € 21.3m (Bamboo, Gouiri, Schneiderlin, Kamara)
Lorient FC = € 13.5m (Diarra, Boisgard, Grbic)
Stade Rennais = € 12m (Terrier)
Olympique Lyonnais = € 11.5m (Toko Ekambi)
Angers SCO = € 10.5m (Bernardoni, Doumbia)
FC Metz = 10.2 M € (N’Doram, Vagner, Ambrose)
Reims stadium = 6.7 M € (Donis, Hornby, De Smet)
Montpellier HSC = € 6.3m (Mavididi)
FC Nantes = € 5m (Simon)
Brestois stadium = € 5.4m (Honorat, Faivre)
RC Lens = 4.5 M € (Medina, Jean)
AS Saint-Etienne = 4.5 M € (Kolodziejczak)
Marseille Olympics = € 4m (Gonzalez)
Nîmes Olympique = 2.85 M € (Benrahou, Meling, Reynet)
AS Monaco = 2.5 M € (Musaba)
RC Strasbourg = € 2m (Waris)
LOSC = –
Girondins de Bordeaux = –
Dijon FCO = –