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How Girona built a title-contending side for a pittance

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Girona broke their transfer record last summer to sign Artem Dovbyk. The Ukraine striker joined for a €7.5 million fee from Dnipro-1. That's around 7% of what Real Madrid paid to bring in Jude Bellingham. It's not even 5% of the €160m transfer fee Barcelona forked out to make Philippe Coutinho their record signing in 2018.

Dovbyk is one of the exceptions in the Girona squad, too. Many regular starters either arrived on free transfers or joined on loan for the season.