Transfer fees have ballooned in the past five years with €50 million (£44m/$57m) now seemingly the minimum you would pay for a top-class player in Europe.
We aren't quite at the first €1 billion squad (£886m/$1.13bn) yet but we certainly are approaching it, with the most expensive squad in the world at the moment costing €800m (£709m/$912m) to put together, with that figure growing 13% in just 12 months.
With the €100m (£89m/$114m) barrier being broken several times in the past couple of years there is no surprise that we are currently looking at the most expensive squads ever assembled.
(Figures are for the 2017 financial year)
