When Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City won the Premier League in 2015-16, their first-choice full-back pairing of Danny Simpson and Christian Fuchs cost a combined £2 million. As Pep Guardiola's Manchester City attempt to win the Premier League in 2017-18, their first-choice full-back pairing of Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy cost a combined £95m.
This is an extraordinary statistic that says so much about so much: the improbability of Leicester's triumph, the sheer amount of money Guardiola has been forced to spend in order to rejuvenate City and the extraordinary inflation in transfer fees over the past three years.