The given line chart displays how much football teams like Manchester City, Manchester Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal paid for transferring players between 1995 and 2015.
Overall, the spending of Liverpool, Manchester Utd and Manchester City presents an upward trend over the time period. The only exception to this is Arsenal, which fluctuated throughout the years but still remained relatively stable.
Manchester Utd started as the highest, with approximately 30 million pounds in 1995, consistently increasing its spending year on year before reaching just below 160 million in 2015. Just like the former team, Liverpool also succeeded in keeping its position as the second greatest spender, gradually increasing from a little less than 30 million over the first 5 years, before its dramatic growth that hit the peak of nearly 135 million of pounds in 2015.
While Manchester City was the lowest overall spender at the very start of the period, at around 5 million of pounds, it showed a steady upward tendency over the next 10 years until its amount of spending rocketed to nearly 130 million in 2015, making the team the third in this group of spenders. Arsenal’s amount of spending on player transfers fluctuated between the given time range at more or less 30 million, except for one dip in 2005 with just above 10 million.