No inflation here; as recently as 2009, Arshavin was Arsenal's record signing. The fee? 16.5 million Euro.

Only nine years later, Arsenal have thirteen players worth more than that, with Aubameyang valued at 75 million Euro all by himself! In terms of English football as a whole, top dog Manchester City's squad is worth over a billion Euro!

And that's just the thing: when central banks expanded the global money supplies by trillions following the last financial crisis, that money went straight to the richest people on Earth, which is why "income inequality" has become so incredible. You can see it directly with massive price inflation of play things for the rich, like football players.