Continuing on with the theme of buying success, I was pointed in the right direction of an article in The Mirror which looked at every Premiership season’s top spender. It is interesting to note that only on 5 occasions have the summer’s biggest spenders gone on to win the title the following season.
1992-93: Blackburn £8.11m (4th); champions Manchester United £2.3m.
1993-94: Blackburn £8.65m (2nd); champions Manchester United £3.75m.
1994-95: Everton £10.9m (15th); champions Blackburn £6.8m.
1995-96: Newcastle £14.78m (2nd); champions Manchester United £750,000.
1996-97: Newcastle £16.5m (2nd); champions Manchester United £7.5m.
1997-98: Newcastle £21m (13th); champions Arsenal £16.55m.
1998-99: Manchester United biggest spenders with £27.75m and also champions.
1999-2000: Liverpool £36.3m (4th); champions Manchester United £10m.
2000-01: Leeds £38.45m (4th); champions Manchester United £7.8m.
2001-02: Manchester United £57m (3rd); champions Arsenal £23.25m.
2002-03: Manchester United biggest spenders with £33m and also champions.
2003-04: Chelsea £121m (2nd); champions Arsenal £13.25m.
2004-05: Chelsea biggest spenders with £89m and also champions.
2005-06: Chelsea biggest spenders with £63.4m and also champions.
2006-07: Chelsea £64m; champions Manchester United £18.6m.
2007-08: Manchester United biggest spenders with £52.125m and also champions.
2008-09: Manchester City £113m (10th); champions Manchester United £46.75m.
2009-10: Manchester City £124m (5th); champions Chelsea £23.5m.
It is also interesting to note that United have only been the highest spenders in 4 of the 18 Premiership seasons, the same number as Chelsea, and were champions in 3 of those seasons. Our remaining 8 Premiership title were won when we were not the top spenders.
Transfer League also have stats on Premiership spending totals.
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money does matters…but it may not be everything…jus look at shitty…LMAO
It would be interesting (& perhaps more relevant) to see a league of prem big spenders based on on total spent to date.
I can remember when “Uncle Jack’s millions” were seen as extravagant beyond. £8m seems like chicken feed these days.
Interesting piece.
What united have spent has always been utds money.
Money made by the club.
We have never spent false money by rich overseas investors.
City’s and Chelseas spending is all false.
Yeah but Man United had players like, The Nevilles, Scholes, Giggs, Beckham and Butt. Any team who had those kind of youth players coming through would have hardly had to spend money at all.
United are just as guilty as wasting money as Blackburn, Everton, Leeds, Chelsea.
Players like Djemba-Djemba, Forlan, Veron, Berbatov and Kleberson to name but a few…
Arsenal 12th wow!
Cheers Scott. Windy Miller where are you?
@Danny
Yes, but it took a team like UNited and a manager like Ferguson to make these youngsters reach their full potential. Not every team and not every manager can do that.
@danny
I cant understand what you want to say.You need to appreciate the fact that united are able to produce such a wonderful tslents rather than saying we have wasted the money.
At least cit get to be top of one league
@ Alan… doesn’t the purchased col. show totals spent in premiership years? In which case Chelsea top the list followed by City… then Utd closely followed by Liverpool.
@Danny… As Costas points out… its through the culture of our club to nuture our youth and give opportunity to develop into first team players…. thats what this club has always been good at… you can’t use that in the arguement…
The point of this article im my opinion is to show that bags of gold won’t necessarily bring long term success. We’re now seeing incredible amounts of money thrown at clubs like Chelsea and City (far from the likes of amounts we saw with Newcastle and Blackburn) yet the stats show the same apply… long term success is more than throwing money around. And so all these City fans who come on here preaching the future is Blue and the demise of UTD is imminent… need to take stock at what the stats say!
Danny, please don’t put Tha Continental (Berbatov) in that category.
He’s lead in assists, produced skills NO other player does, still an important member of the squad and seems a decent guy.
If you are looking for someone to blame, blame that tight-arse yid Daniel Levy!
Wonder if the Shitty jobsworths (part-time savants) are gonna retort… saying that, they say there’s a thin line between being a future-telling savant and a total retard… Mr Mancini and the other shitty posters, I see white coats in your future if u ain’t already there!!ha
Wheres that cunt citeh fan Windymill now? Blows his theory out the water doesn’t it! Interesting to note that when it comes to players sold we top the list. Ronaldo has a lot to do with that but even without his transfer we would easily be in the top 3.
What a kick in the teeth for all City, Chelsea, Liverpoo and Arsenal fans, they’ll just go back to saying SAF is over rated and we’re lucky team lol.
Oh yeah, there is nobody better than SAF then developing players, just look at Ronaldo, when he joined he couldn’t hit a barn door but prospered into the best player in the world!
I just think United’s spend would have been considerably higher had he not had such an array of young talent to hand during the 90′s. Just as an example, imagine how much it would have cost for Scholes, Giggs, Beckham, Butt and the Neville’s in their prime? Small fortune at the least
Every successful team had always great players produced from within the club, Look at Gerrard, Fowler and Carragher at Liverpool, Terry at Chelsea, Scholes and Giggs at United, Xavi, Iniesta and Puyol at Barca.
West Ham were an exemption as they seem to sell all their youngsters at the wrong time, Joe Cole, Lampard, Rio. Doh
Think Portsmouth is a little artificially low. I mean the team had pretty much everyone on the chopping block to get out of winding up orders.
@ Giggsys- Yeah, they spent their money just like the Glazers spent theirs. Come on down off your high horse. Had they not sold CR they would have been on the wrong end of AV on this list.
Danny – Yes, if we had of bought those players it would’ve cost big money, but they didn’t cost anything, so what your point?
This also shows that Arsenal are the only team to win the title without ever being the highest spenders. Proving it’s got nothing to do with how much you spend its who you buy. The value of Man Uniteds youngsters if bought at their peak would be well in excess of £100m and so the reason why so many titles were won early on. Unfortunately after Chelsea (who for all intents and purpose are cheating) won the title everyone else is thinking that they must spend vast amounts to keep up. Again, Arsenal if not for the unfortunate injuries were very close to the top last season and only spent £10m. Now that the new rules are coming in it will be very interesting to see who actually can produce the best results with the players they have.
City unwilling to meet Villa’s valuation for Millner, but by the grace of God, City have got it at last!!
Whist it’s interesting to analyse club spending, and it’s clear that big spending clubs can expect more success than those that cannot afford to spend, it’s an extremely unreliable way to compare club spending successes or indeed the savvy of individual managers. There are simply too many factors which can affect a players’ valuation, and what a club is expected to pay to secure thier services. Notwithstanding the huge increases in prices since the start of the Premier League which have far out paced general price inflation and which make year on year comparisons unreliable, the revenues generated by clubs in the top flight has increased markedly, thus increasing thier buying power with respect to say other European clubs. Given the vast amounts being spent by City and the huge transformation taking place there at a time when our club appears to be suffering financially, it is understandable why fans might be pre-occupied with spending. I think that United fans need to focus on the positives at our club which most other clubs can only dream about. In addition to our bulging trophy cabinet, we have a fantastic internationally renowed and recognised stadium, a fantastic fan base, a wonderful history including some of the best players ever to have played the game. We have argubly the best manager ever who remains as enthusiastic about the club and his players as ever and who is buidling another very exciting young team which could be successful for years to come. It’s not all bad. I try not to be distracted by what happens at other clubs, even the noisy ones, and instead focus on United. I’d hate to support City or Chelsea – even now with the money it would be impossible to see past United.
seriously sir alex signs young cheap talent for the future and lots of them are sold for triple the buying price etc.. genius and football fanatic…
Its amazing how Shitty are up there with the spending. It just goes to show how Desperate they are. Interesting seeing Blackburn only spending 8mil seams an age now when Jack Walker took over.
At least though Jack Walker was a true and Lifelong Blackburn fan I’m not sure what Sheik Monsour wants with Shitty. Can’t be much though with that total Idiot Comical Cook in Charge. ( Think it has something to do with Developing the area around Wastelands and that Super casino.) Theres talk of them upping the Capacity to 60 odd thousand yet they can’t eaven fill the council house as it is. They’ll keep making loss after loss season after season. Poor deluded souls.
Manchester is Red and Always will be.
FFs am gonna run oot of photocopier paper and ink at this fucking rate.! Brilliant stats as you expect from this blog.Pure dead brilliant.
Good article Scott.
these kinda articles are priceless…this is what you’re the best at Scott…stats….and this is where it should be used – not when describing berbatov’s contribution – coz in that case, it’s really pointless and delusional
this is the best place on the web if you wanna get to know some stats
Read a few comments about where the money has come from, and I have to say that in the past it was irrelevant. Man Utd might have spent all their own money to acheive success, but if everyone did the same then it would lead to the same team winning every time. Winning = prize money, glory supporters, TV time etc. The more you win, the more you get paid, the more you have to spend. To break this cycle needs money. Depending on how far down the order you are the more money you need. Before Roman with Chelsea, we were Champs League level, but only just. To get up to a regular CL level and prem winners took huge investment over a 3 year plan, topped up a few years later with a single year of high investment. City are trying to do the same thig but from a lower base. They weren’t CL level, and so have to spend more to acheive the same results. This is what we’re seeing. The spending patterns of United actually mirror that of Chelsea when related to success levels. A season of heavy spending followed by 1-3 years of success. Then somone sneaks a title for a season or two, United spend big again and get hold of another 1-3 seasons. Blackburn did it, Chelsea did it, Man United did it. Will Man City do it too? I think we just have to know that it cannot continue like this. Next year will be Man City’s last big spending year before the new Financial Fair Play Rules hit. Then the game changes. Everthing has to move in cycles and Man City will have to contend with both United and Chelsea (plus a resurgeant Blackburn maybe?), along with the usual suspects of Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool. Good luck to everyone and may the competitions begin!