The president of La Liga described the Premier League as “a doped market” after its clubs smashed the record for a January transfer window, spending £815m in a spree that underlined the widening financial gap between English football’s top flight and the rest of Europe.
Chelsea led the way, breaking the British transfer record with the £106.8m signing of Benfica midfielder Enzo Fernández hours before the window closed and the £88.5m purchase of the Ukrainian winger Mykhailo Mudryk, as English clubs nearly doubled the previous January window record of £430m, set in 2018.
