Pep Guardiola's incredible spending on players hit £865m this summer… and signing Kylian Mbappe would take him over £1BILLION
- Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been spending heavily this summer
- He has already paid out £221.7m in transfer fees and more is to come
- Should City buy Kylian Mbappe, Guardiola's career spending would top £1billion
- Sportsmail breaks down where the money's gone and who it's been spent on
- Manchester City news: All the latest from the Etihad Stadium
Pep Guardiola might be considered to be among the very best coaches in the world but he certainly knows how to spend a pretty penny as well.
The Spaniard has enjoyed immense success during his relatively brief career in management prior to arriving at Manchester City but it hasn't come cheap.
That haul of three La Liga titles, three Bundesliga crowns and a brace of Champions League victories came at tremendous cost.
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And in pursuing silverware with his latest club, Pep could tip his spending scales over £1billion this summer, should his pursuit of Monaco starlet Kylian Mbappe come off.
It's an extraordinary total to have racked up over the course of nine short summers in the dugout.
Guardiola's shopping habits began when he moved into the top job at the Nou Camp in the summer of 2008.
He shelled out £81m in his first transfer window - including impressive value for money in the shape of £4.5m Gerard Pique and £11m Seydou Keita and some more questionable purchase such as £14m Martin Caceres and £6.5m Henrique.
The £59m capture of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2009 remains Guardiola's single biggest outlay, though snapping up Mbappe from under Real Madrid's noses in the next few weeks will add £100m to that record.
During his four years in the top job in Catalonia, Guardiola got his president to write out cheques to the tune of £289.5m.
At Bayern, his spending was more restrained but big-name purchases were still the order of the day.
Douglas Costa, Medhi Benatia and Thiago all cost more than £20m. Arturo Vidal and Mario Gotze fetched fees beyond £30m.
Only once in nine years in charge of the continents top clubs has Guardiola spent less than £50m in a single season. That came in 2014-15, when his overall outgoings of £44.5m included a bargain basement £8m for Xabi Alonso.
Since swapping Bavaria for Greater Manchester, however, the 46-year-old has discovered the knack of cash-splashing once again.
In just two-and-a-half transfer windows at the Etihad, Guardiola has used Sheik Mansour's treasure chest with abandon, spending a grand total of £400.4m on 16 players - almost half of his overall outlay across his coaching career.
And that's without Mbappe.
GUARDIOLA'S SPEND: SEASON BY SEASON
2008-09 - Barcelona
Martin Caceres (Villarreal, £14m)
Seydou Keita (Sevilla, £11m)
Gerard Pique (Manchester Utd, £4.5)
Dani Alves (Sevilla, £30m)
Aleksandr Hleb (Arsenal, £15m)
Henrique (Desportivo Brasil, £6.5m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £81m
2009-10 - Barcelona
Maxwell (Inter Milan, £4m)
Keirrison (Palmeiras, £12m)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan, £59m)
Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Shakhtar Donetsk, £21m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £96m
2010-11 - Barcelona
David Villa (Valencia, £34m)
Adriano (Sevilla, £8m)
Javier Macherano (Liverpool, £17m)
Ibrahim Afellay (PSV Eindhoven, £2.5m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £61.5m
2011-12 - Barcelona
Alexis Sanchez (Udinese, £22m)
Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal, £29m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £51m
2013-14 - Bayern Munich
Mario Gotze (Borussia Dortmund, £35.4m)
Thiago (Barcelona, £21.5m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £56.9m
2014-15 - Bayern Munich
Juan Bernat (Valencia, £8.5m)
Pepe Reina (Liverpool, £2.5m)
Medhi Benatia (Roma, £23m)
Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid, £8m)
Sinan Kurt (Borussia Monchengladbach, £2.5m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £44.5m
2015-16 - Bayern Munich
Douglas Costa (Shakhtar Donetsk, £25.5m)
Sven Ulreich (Stuttgart, £3m)
Joshua Kimmich (Stuttgart, £7m)
Arturo Vidal (Juventus, £31.25)
Kingsley Coman (Juventus, £5.5m loan fee)
Serdar Tasci (Spartak Moscow, £2m loan fee)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £74.25m
2016-17 - Manchester City
Ilkay Gundogan (Borussia Dortmund, £21m)
Nolito (Celta Vigo, £14m)
Oleksandr Zinchenko (Ufa, £2m)
Leroy Sane (Schalke, £42m)
Marlos Moreno (Atletico Nacional, £4.5m)
Gerónimo Rulli (Deportivo Maldonado, £4m)
John Stones (Everton, £47m)
Pablo Marí (Gimnastic, £200,000)
Claudio Bravo (Barcelona, £17m)
Gabriel Jesus (Palmeiras, £27m)
ANNUAL TOTAL: £178.7m
2017-18 - Manchester City
Ederson (Benfica, £35m)
Bernardo Silva (Monaco, £43m)
Kyle Walker (Tottenham, £54m)
Douglas Luiz (Vasco da Gama, £10.7m)
Danilo (Real Madrid, £27m)
Benjamin Mendy (Monaco, £52m)
ANNUAL TOTAL (so far): £221.7m
GRAND SPENDING TOTAL (so far): £865.55million
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