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When soccer’s top international tournament, theChampions League, begins its group stage on September 16, it will offer a chance for Europe’s top clubs to show off the results of their summer spending. 国际顶级足球赛事欧洲冠军联赛（Champions League）于9月16日展开小组赛。欧洲的顶级俱乐部将利用这次机会，展示他们夏季斥资引援的成果。 And quite a summer of spending it was: Teams in England’s Premier League spent EUR1.05 billion (about $1.4 billion) buying players, up from EUR752 million last year. In Spain’s La Liga, the teams paid EUR479 million. And in Italy and Germany, they spent EUR328 million and EUR315 million respectively. 这真是个一掷千金的夏天：英超球队总共花费了10.5亿欧元（约合14亿美元）购买球员，而去年这一数字为7.52亿欧元。西甲球队购买球员的总开支为4.79亿欧元。意大利和德国职业球队则分别花费了3.28亿欧元和3.15亿欧元。 Of course, European soccer operates like any international talent business, with top performers gravitating to the most generous employers. 当然，欧洲足球的人才机制与其他行业的国际人才聘用模式没什么不同，表现最好的员工都倾向于为最慷慨的雇主工作。 “Transfer spending is analogous to the international balance of trade, where wealthy leagues usually import more talent than lower revenue domestic leagues,” says John Vrooman, a Vanderbilt University sports economist. | 
