Overview
- The club’s transfer budget stands at about €40 million despite Champions League qualification, Club World Cup participation and Jamie Gittens’s €60 million sale
- Last season’s wage commitments, including base salaries and performance bonuses, totaled roughly €170 million
- Summer signings Yan Couto (€25 million), Jobe Bellingham (€30 million) and Daniel Svensson (€7 million) have already absorbed most of the Gittens windfall
- Fixed obligations such as Nuri Sahin’s €3.5 million severance, ongoing payments to Sven Mislintat and planned medical-centre investment further restrict funds
- FIFA Club World Cup prize money of €44 million yielded only half for the club after travel, taxes and player premiums