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.
2010-2011: Manchester City £155m (3rd); champions Manchester United £27m
2011-2012: Manchester City £84m; champions….?
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Bloody hell. What a mess the billionaires have made of this sport.
I have heard somewhere – “Never argue with a fool, he will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience”.
So Scott no need for all these stats IMO as you can never make the ABU’s understand this..
Funny how we were the top spenders on only 4 occasions. ABUs will have you know that just because United have won the title on 3 occasions where they were the top spenders, that means that Ferguson has “bought his success”. The other side to that coin is the 14 times where the to spenders didn’t win the title…
who the hell did everton buy in 1994!
2 Indian Devil
There’s one more, it goes like this:
“When you’re arguing with a fool, he’s doing the same thing.”
I didn’t know the title was for sale. Go on then, I’ll give you a fiver for it son, but that’s cutting me own throat.
Must be hanging around with Arry too much…
http://agentoffergie.blogspot.com/2011/08/fishy-dealings.html
£500m spent on transfer fees alone in 4 years. Wow.
Financial doping, as Wenger called it. God knows what their wage bill is, not to mention upgrades they’ve made to the stadium, training ground etc. Abu Dhabi United FC.
What a joke.
Everton paid 11 mil for one FA cup in 95. Shity paid 155 mil for the one FA cup in 2011.
Even taking transfer market inflation into the equation, that’s still MASSIVE.
@hellsmith – lol.. Don’t generalize it based on your own experience, there are smart people also in this world
Well put Indian Devil. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
@callumander
Their 2 most expensive signings were Daniel Amokachi (who had a good world cup) at 3 mil and Duncan Ferguson at 5.4 mil. The latter is probably the biggest waste of money I’ve ever heard of.
Let’s be clear about this though gents, to a point, you do buy the title. We do it, Arsenal has done it, any team that wins titles spends money to do it. The question is how much you pay for your title, and whether you get it or not. Part and parcel of football is the transfer market, getting the most for a player you sold, paying the right price for the players you need. You spend money, you win titles. We win titles because of money spent in previous seasons to bring players like Rooney to the club. Silverware always has a price tag attached, the wise manager spends as little to get it as possible.
What Chelsea and City have done is used their access to limitless spending power to simply buy up everybody. It is the approach of a child using a money hack in Football Manager. It is infantile, brute force spending. It is playing the transfer market without intelligence or restraint. And that is what cheapens their wins, if City ever do win the title it will be what devalues it. City in particular are demonstrating that you buy a place in the top division (let’s face it, whatever Manchester City was before the buyout doesn’t matter now, they could have been any team in the top division) and use hundreds of millions of pounds to buy a title. Part of the triumph of a title win is doing it for as little money as possible. In theory with infinite money any club, from Norwich to Newcastle, could win a title with unlimited resources.
When Chelsea bought their titles they were still Chelsea. I think that was always the case, they were always the same swaggering blue bastards, but suddenly they went from facing ruin to fat cats. But they were still Chelsea, a team which had been competing at the highest level with some of the best players even before Abramovitch showed up.
City on the other hand are nothing more than a placeholder in the top division, a launch pad for the ambitions of the owner. Whatever character they had when they were bought has been sand blasted away, and a new shiny corporate system planted on top like a shopping mall. It’s ironic that they have become an exaggerated form of everything they hated about us. I don’t even think we should call them the Bitters any more, the Bitters are dead. Manchester City is dead. What we see now is an entirely new football club. Like some sort of MK Dons monstrosity writ large.
Indian Devil and ScholesForGoals are right, Scott shouldn’t bother writing informative articles, because there’s no point.
RepublikOfNihilism.com
@Costas – I’ll see your Duncan Ferguson and raise you a Dong Fangzhou
I do think that biggest spender isn’t always reflective, I mean I know that it wasn’t the case but when Chelsea spent £121M we don’t know that Utd. didn’t spend £120M. I think what you have to look at is SAF’s ability to spot a bargain, but also the fact that for a long time Man Utd. were able to say to players we will pay you massive wages BUT they did of course always offer trophies. I think the difference is that Man City have jumped from no where. Chelsea were top four or there abouts and Sir Alex actually said the year before Abramovich took over that he fully expected Chelsea to be their main rivals for the coming season, and to be fair to him he isn’t usually far wrong! I don’t think he said that about Man City before the Arabs took over!!!
Big Dunc used to do well against United. Bloody handful!
Two clowns broke into his house. Suffice to say, they got a good hiding.
Wrong choice lads.
@Cyril Sneer
Lol, at least he was cheaper than Duncan Ferguson. 5.4 million in 95 was close to a British transer record. I know that Ferguson has done well against us, but that’s the only games he’s played well in his career.
Speaking of Dong, he’s scored 4 goals in the last 4 years for club and country. Class. And he’ll always be a United legend just because Terry formed a guard of honour for his sake.
interesting stats…i here fish face nasri signed a £180.000 a week contract?fuck me city r gona burn themselves out with these stupid salaries and wats gona happen wen they wana sign another big player?hes gona want big to..im interested to see wat way the new uefa rules will effect them as im sure theres a loophole somwere.
anyways who cares im excited for the season as i believe with the squad we have we can go a step further than last year and how sweet it would be as it would be done with a youthful side.
There was ding in dong.
Fascinating figures. Have to admit it, Wenger’s Arsenal come out of this quite well, never having been top spenders yet winning three titles.
Years and years (well before the Prem) ago I remember some anlysis that showed that the team that fouled most won most trophies. I’d love to know if that’s still true. I’d think not with United, although possible with Arsenal in the days when they won anything.
Cue the LP, snap crackle dune, dune a dune dune MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PINK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK OUT IT IS FLLLLOOOOOYYYYYYDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!
According to Wikipedia, Dong has 3 goals so far this season so it might be worth keeping an eye on him. Maybe he’s ‘turned the corner’ and is ready to set the world on fire.
Incidentally, it’s 3 goals more than Torres. Jus’ sayin’….
@Costas
Hello mate. I’ll see your Fanghzou and raise you a Kleberson and Bellion.
Hope city buy him then.
Sir Giles of RoM, great post on AW vs SAF on the other story.
Looking forward to your next put me in the picture story time of yours.
Agreed with Willie, big Dunc was a handful and not a bad player at all.
Thanks Cedars.
Thanks for the thanks Willie, no need to mention it, but as you did I appreciate it.. Thanks again
@ Doghouse. Excellent last paragraph. I’ll be stealing some of those lines. I’ll pay you 0.0001p every time I use one.
This summer I wore something with United on it every time I stepped out the house to do a menial task. The amount of fans I encountered who hate us with such a passion have transferred it to the blue side. They call as banal when we say their stadium is called the United stadium (It is,) Yet they insist that there are no United fans in Manchester.
The difference is when we spend money we buy no more than 4 players and if we do, usually we have a few going out or some of them are youngsters for the future. Look at cit-eh and chelski what they did was virtually buy a new team every year. If the players were shit, they don’t need to sell unless someone offers them what they want.
Just think lads, how many players were bought and have just lasted one season at United before being shown the door. The only one I can think of is Poborsky and he was sold due to work permit issues. That is the major difference which everyone seems to ignore.
I know, I know…we shouldn’t care what others are spending on as we spent on class and our youngsters are already phenomenal…
I don’t care City got Aguero and Nasri, I don’t care that Chelsea got Mata and may have Modric, and I certainly don’t care about Henderson, Adam and Downing…
But…Coates is a beast, and I don’t want Liverfool to get him…especially if its for only 10 million.
And yes, we have Ferdinand, Vidic, Jones, Smalling and Evans…but Sir Alex was going after Varane, so he believes another centre back won’t be pushing it.
So, Coates for us!
Hi Zibbie, thanks for nice comment. Family holiday coming up. Probably have to wait till I’m back till I get going again. In the past I’ve promised things on Nobby Stiles, Sir Bobby and Sir Matt, which I’ll certainly do at some point. I also want to write a bit on the 70s & 80s, which I’ve done less on. Maybe time to have a look at the Doc and Big Ron. I also fancy going through the 92/93 and 93/94 seasons in some detail, as people seem to like Cantona tales and I loved those seasons. Any other requests?
Giles – Maybe something on that Bruce header at OT? That was 92/93 season. Seminal moment in our history. Old Trafford went bonkers! As did me and my old man.
@ Giles. How are you sir. If you were to do a piece on the 70s and 80s that would be brilliant. After all the success we’ve had those decades and some of our achievements are swept under the rug. I think its important to know a true supporters perspective during those times. Instead what we most fans know is after 68, we had poor managers got relegated and won 3 FA Cups. What I’m trying to say is, the whole era is summarised into a few sentences. I don’t have a clue if we were ever favourites/considered challengers for the title in the 70s by both the fans and the media.
It’s OK. Man Shitty tryimg to buy all and sundry. For those at the club, it must be fun. Spend hundreds of millions of other (intellectually-challenged) people’s money. Success? What success? At the most they will get the sack albiet with , yes, a sackful of aforesaid money. Some people are just blooming lucky.
@Giles – A piece on Big Ron would be great! i was very young when he was around but i didn’t like him very much due to his persona (or was it his actual personality?) and the way he seemed to over-shadow the team. I guess he was the Mourinho of his day with a bit less success.
City fans will become what they’ve purported to hate.
Oh, the irony…
^^^^^^^^^^
What he said
according to the Daily Fail, Shark Face has joined a ‘superstar team’. i dont know about anyone else but when I think ‘superstar footballer’ it’s not usually followed by an image of Edin Dzeko or James Milner.
@zibbie or Giles or anyone who can help
Hello lads, where is the AW vs SAF stats, would love to read that.
Thanks
Let us rejoice. Its official the snood wearing ponce has joined the bitters. Thank fuck for that.
Cyril
Big Ron was a dick, never warmed to him when he was the boss. Big show off with his cigars and what even at the time were ugly suits! Will always be grateful to him for signing Robbo and to a degree Moses, other than that he was a self centered tit….. Mind you he did give it a go with Villa in the 92/93 season,
NRD – Hear hear!
@ Cyril
Apparently “Superstar” price tag = “Superstar” Footballer
Excuse me while I puke.
just read city have signed nasri and get this, the number on his jersey?……… 19!!!!
haha, i guess sales of his jersey will be an all time low
@ Cedars – Thats exactly the thing I was referring to @16.09. When Big Ron was around I was more interested in how many Farley Rusks I was having for tea than Big Ron’s management qualities. I do remember him a little bit, I thought him and Bernard Matthews were the same person.
I would love to just take a look at the Players bought and Prices paid by Shitty over the last 3 years.
It’s Wednesday, I need comedic relief.
The Bitters had speant nearly 400 million over the last 3 seasons? Not to mention their outlay this summer?
Just can’t make this stuff up.
How much was Roque Santa Cruz again? Did he ever make a start? I seriously had almost forgot they bought him :shakinghead:
@Cedars – I just wonder if perhaps he can be excused a bit due to his 2 FA Cups and the fact he was competing against a pretty strong Dippers team (Paisley?) I didnt like him at the time but I dont know if maybe his achievements were more appreciated by fans that were a bit older than me.
NRD – Didn’t know you were that young.
And yeah, I flirted with the idea of Cinderella joining United. I did say, if he chose the money over United, then fuck him. So…
@Bigsol, I am no good at those type of skills. I’m due very little in the cyber world. Some here are awesome at finding that sort of thing. Give RoM world time to answer.
Manchester City have signed French midfielder Samir Nasri from Arsenal on a four-year contract
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/samir-nasri-completes-switch-to-manchester-city-2343051.html
Sorry to go off topic, and it is an interesting topic, but Durham on TalkSport just continues to talk nonsense.
Slagging off Everton and Kenwright, still wanking furiously over City beating Swansea, yet still no mention of our young English lads dismissing a top team like Spurs.
I have never been a fan of “salary caps” in english football because the world marketplace will just lead the best players to leave and play in leagues without a cap. But there is something to say about holding clubs to sane business models. You might think I am going to talk about club level finance, but I am thinking of the footballers and the growing potential of lost careers. My thesis is that mega squads like City are sucking the life out of football because they don’t support the game, only themselves.
City has taken some talented footballers and essentially priced them out of a career in football.
They will never play for another club until their contract expires. A growing number of them will just be sat on the bench because there is no room in the 25man roster. Imagine if a team with a budget like City were to get ahold of a large percentage of the emerging U19s, or U21s. The likes of Cleverley, Wellbeck and Jones? They would be sat, on the bench, no team could afford them on loan, and the National team would never get them because they wouldn’t play.
Make no mistake, the problem is only partially down to excessive wages. The problem is that a team can only field 11 (+3 with subs). If a team sucks up 45, 50, 60 of the top players, and prices them out of a move, then the world looses access to 20-30 top professionals. This is not a workable model for world sport.
Solutions. Teams must be limited to a certain number of senior contracts, something in line with the 24-25 man squad limits, maybe 30 contracts. But they can’t be allowed to continue to sign players who will have not hope of playing. A salary cap may be coming. But I don’t think it will help solve the real problem and the emerging challenge to football created by the mega rich.
Sir Giles, looking forward to them. Have a great vacation. Holiday I should say. I like that expression. Holiday. I’m going on holiday.
@ willierednut. I’ve heard that l’arse didn’t want to sell to us. I was interested when I first heard but why buy him when we have Cleverly. I’d prefer if we signed someone in the Hargreaves mould. If not give the kids a go. As for Sneijder now Etoo has gone Russia that deal is definitely off. Should have signed him for £15 million when he was at the virus. Domestically I can’t see anyone other than us winning the league. Europe? Different proposition altogether. Seen the seeding this years group stages will be the hardest.
Thanks for calling me young, every one else calls me Old Man!
Cyril – Just to be clear here mate, when you say, you’d like to see a piece on big Ron. Do you mean a gun? Because, I’m thinking a colt 45 would suit big orange Ron down to a tee.
Fletch nice thoughts. The family that owns Chity. Have some kind of crazy ass fortune. The on guy who say’s he owns it has some 20 billion alone. I heard they are worth 1/2 a Trillion wow what the fuck??????????
300 k per player. FFP rules?? Sell naming rights to there own companies and overpay? Is that fair play?
Well how about those kids!!!!!!!!!!!
@ Fred 15:19
Maybe there’s been some confusion.. I was alluding to the fact that ABU’s wouldn’t understand actual justifiable statistics, not about the articles found on RoM. I’ll never, ever, ever oppose of Scott’s excellent posts. Nor the comments that follow. I wait on baited breath for them as a means to keep me occupied during my working day. These analytical assessments make this the best club blog site there is.
Just to clear things up.
What have we spent £84m on this season?!
Oh – shitty have lol
@willie – what a great idea! First Ron then Kenny and Mansour…
@redorded
Hi mate. No, it was Cyril that mentioned Dong, lol. For me, it’s still Duncan Ferguson as the biggest waste of money and then the rest.
And if you don’t believe me, ask the OT crowd that were chanting it towards him during a United-Newcastle 5-1 drubbing in 99. 
He was that day. He was top class for Everton.
Cyril – Believe me we were more than grateful for any sort of trophy at the time and we did give Ron credit however I recall very well that I hardly heard any supporter who was over the moon having him manage the club……… Mind you he was not our only problem then!
NRD – Not only was he a dick but also a racist, I remember when he managed West Brom he always referred to Cyril Regis as the ‘colored lad’
‘Highly rated Manchester United midfielder Oliver Norwood has put pen to paper on a five-month loan deal to Scunthorpe United, that will see him move to Glanford Park until January 2.’
http://www.givemefootball.com/league-one/confirmed-international-midfielder-completes-unite
Costas – Sorry buddy but I am with Willie here (again) on big Dunc…. Not a flop by any means for Everton
Champions League group stage draw takes place in Monaco tomorrow (Thursday.)
Expected pots for Thursday’s CL draw:
Pot one – Manchester United, Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Arsenal*, Real Madrid, Porto, Inter Milan.
Pot two – Shakhtar Donetsk, Lyon*, Villarreal, AC Milan, Valencia, Marseille, CSKA Moscow, Benfica*.
Pot three – Zenit St Petersburg, Man City, Olympiakos, Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Fenerbahce, Basle, Lille.
Pot four – Borussia Dortmund, BATE*, Dinamo Zagreb, Napoli, APOEL, Genk, Otelul Galati, Viktoria Plzen*.
(* Still to qualify!)
Marseille, Olympiakos and Napoli would be nice.
@willie, Cedars
Speaking of Ferguson and Everton, he scored 60 goals in 230 games for them. Career total: 126 goals in 423 games. 1 every 4 games. In all seriousness, not a total flop. But top class? No way. Pretty limited from a talent standpoint. But if you had players that knew how to loft the ball at his head, he was useful. Kind of like Andy Carroll.
@ Cedars – To be fair mate during that era even the BBC were bad. I acquired the original episodes as they aired of Only Fools and Horses and even in that Del Boy and Uncle Albert say they are nipping down the P*** shop. Like I said I only know stuff about Fat Ron from what people say on here. I could go on about the race issue but I simply don’t want to because I’m in a rarely good mood today.
Are w the top seeds this year? Probably since we got rid of the dreadful 05-06 season in the ranking.
I’d take Lyon, Basle and Genk. Not a lot of travelling there.
Anyone know what time the draw is?
@ Costas. Officially in terms of points accumulated we are top. However as Barca fluked their way past us in May and are the holders they become top seeds regardless of the points gained. Funny, they didn’t do that when we won it in 2008. Platini you’re a fat cunt.
Time of Draw 4.30pm GMT
Thanks for the info, smartalex. City should be in pot 4 and Dortmund in pot 3 imho. Hope we get Milan, Ajax and Dortmund.
ScholesForGoals – fair enough. Sorry for the sarky comment!
AC MIlan, Ajax and Dortmund – those would be my choices.
@ Fred LOL
He was top class for Everton! Not a top class player, like a Shearer. He give them more than goals. No doubt he could of scored more goals. Factor in injuries and loss of form as well.
Petey Red Red
16:45 BST
Cheers notoriousreddevil! Hope city get barca, all Saying they can beat barca. The champs league will be a big wake up call for them ! *hopefully
The draw this week? Take anyone.
The question on the lips of football fans around Europe as we head into tomorrow’s draw: who the fuck are Otelul Galati, Viktoria Plzen and Man City?
Anybody fancy a sing-song? I’ve just made up my own new tune…
the Arse went back to italy
To qualify for the champions league
They’ve got no cesc but they’ve got Song
Wait a minute… Something’s wrong!
hey Wenger! You’re going out the cup now
Hey Wenger! You’re city’s feeder club now
hey Wenger! Say hello to sixth place now
Sucks to be a goon, you wont win anything soon
Notorious – great minds! LOL
Cyril – A few verses to come yet lol.
Fred – I have heard of the first 2 you mention but who the fuck is that third team?
I hope City get Porto, Shakhtar and BATE. Ah, the glamour of the Champions League.
Costas – Emile Heskey to Liverpool, 11 million. Now, that was a waste of money!
@zibbie
Cheers mate will find it eventually…
Big Dunc was more than just a hard basterd, better version than crouch IMO
Whoever we get I think we are going to struggle, some dangerous teams teams in every pot.
Cedars – I had to look them up. Apparently they’re an English team who won the last of their 2 national championships 43 years ago. So, a fitting addition to the Champions League 2011-12, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Which pot are liverpool in?
parryheid, why the hell would we struggle? We were runners up in May.
Tin pot.
Liverpool are potless yet again.
The glamour of the Champion League seduces me just like Celine Dion
Fred – Even wikipedia crashed when I typed in their name, so I cannot say I have any info on them…. Are they really that shit?
Lol @ freds city comments. I heard Gaddafi is launching a takeover bit for city. Maybe a launch of a rocket would suffice!
Thank heavens we haven’t just been focussing on beating Barcelona. To hear many on RoM the last few months one could be forgiven for thinking that we’d been seeded straight through to the final.
Petey Red Red
lol………….Nice one
I wonder what odds you’d get on ladyboy Torres for the Golden boot, as he maintains his stunning strike rate for Chelsea of half a goal per manager.
Two pretty clear reasons,correction Three
We could definitely get some good teams from all 3 pots. But at this stage, I’d rather have a boring group that will allow us to focus on the league.
And one thing’s for sure. If we get Villareal, that’s two more 0-0 borefests.
@willie
The problem I have with the top class comment, is that if Ferguson was top class for Everton, what does that make Joe Royle (119 goals in 275 games) or Dixie Dean (383 in 433)? Anyway, Emile Heskey is definitely another legendary waste of money, lol. His return for Liverpool is almost identical to that of Ferguson’s for Everton: 60 goals in 223. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think these two are twins.
‘As a warmup act, UEFA will announce the inaugural winner of its Best Player in Europe award. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernandez, and Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo figure on a three-player shortlist elected by a panel of 53 journalists. The panel, representing each of UEFA’s member nations, also votes for the winner. UEFA created the honor after ”France Football” magazine combined its traditional European award with FIFA’s world player prize.’
………Manchester United £50m
@parryheid – Ohhh, that clears it up. Thank you.
@Notorious
Is that so mate? Well they couldn’t upset their dear Barselona could they? I was actually surprised that we have more points than them given that they’ve won it twice in the last 5 years.
It will be fun to see where Liverpool will end up when (or if) they return to the Ch.League. Probably pot e.
@cedars u will probably hear that in the sun tomorrow the amount of shit that they print. On another subject drogba may have a stalker in romelu lukaku- the boy is obsessed!
I wonder if the BBC’s Howard Nurse is on the 53 man panel of European football aficionados.
“Juan Mata on his way to sign for #Chelsea – is he any good?”
#MUFC interested in Wesley Sneijder – anyone heard of him?
Petey Red Red
Chelsea fans claim that Lukaku never went to bed without his Chelsea scarf! Wonder why
Some bloke called #Messi is trending – anyone heard of him?
Haha- nasri confirmed 4 year deal with shitty worth £24mil . What. A. Cunt
Writing an article about #Pele for the BBC tomorrow – anyone got any info on him?
Howard Nurse – #MCFC sign Nasri – how will he adapt to the #EPL?
#Arsenal playing some Italian team tonight. Think it’s Juventus. Anyone know if they’re much cop?
Costas – Don’t take my word it. Ask the Everton fans. They loved the guy. When he was sold to Newcastle, they were gutted. Everton had some top players. Dixie Dean lol. Google is fucking class! Still holds the scoring record, to this day. 60 goals in one season. Wow! Old Joe played for them and managed Everton. Good friend to the boss.
Pele- correct me if I’m wrong but I do believe he founded the art of whittling in the thirteenth century, hope this helps Fred.
Thank you Petey, I’ll pass this info on to Howard Nurse.
@willie
Actually it was wikipedia, lol. Can’t live without it.
Didn’t even know who Dixie Dean was.
I get your point though. Ferguson isn’t the only player to be considered a legend only amongst one club’s fans. He even made their Hall of Fame.
Doesn’t you know ‘one is the window is still open so still the chance to fill the gap in the middle the other two you can lay the tagies in if we don’t struggle.
Costas – You didn’t Google my ass, you wikipedia me? Lol.
@ Costas. You have to remember our amazing away record in Europe and in both 2009 and 2011 we lost just as many games as Ca-tippy-tappy-lan FC. Also scored quite a few more I think against better oposition. Milan 4-0, Roma 7-1. Certainly helped points total. There isn’t much in it to be honest though.
Pre92 weren’t we typically big spenders?
The minute you walked in the joint…
Arsenal will be ruined is they lose, I hope they don’t, I would much prefer them to be chasing for the titles than city if you know what I mean? (although neither would come close)
Doghouse – there is a huge difference strengthening the side from a position of strength, and just buying your way into the elite. United have worked their asses off to get where they are, what do shitty do, some arab guy comes in and all of a sudden shitty are title contenders. United build sides, shitty the virus and chelsea buy them. Shitty’s small time success is no different than a big rich father putting his son in the fatcats executive job. They have not worked up the ladder, they just got a golden ticket
Football has a ridiculous amount of money.
Does anyone know how much chelsea have spent since january?
I know there has been Ladyboy – £50 Sideshow bob – £27, Lakakloo – £20 Prata £25 but i thinkl there are a few others in there as well
The fucking gual of sky and in particular that ponce Nasri. Making out he knocked us back in order to win trophies. Yeah we will see you goofy bottling mincing cunt.
Interstng to read this batch of comments, as has been mentioned it puts to a bed a lot of myths. However, what this does also tell you is the importance of spending wisely. City and Chelsea have completely distorted the transfer market by buying anyone and everyone, and City in particular having te tactical nouse of ‘we will score more than you’. Being able to bring on players like Aguero et al is seeminly their Plan B.
Spending wisely, creating a team morale, having a team who will play for one another and supporters that will relate to the players to an extent and support is far more important. A blend of youth, experience and new buys. Having players from your own club is vital, more so than buying lots of foreigners for obscene amounts of money, like it not, when the going gets tough, it is these kinds of players that often drag you through and instil team morale.
its only chelski and shitty that are buying the title. But the title will stay at old trafford
It is one thing to spend money on players, but its another thing entirely to get value for the money spent. Man United actually spend big too{not in comparison to citeh & chelski} but we have always got good values from our players with big transfer fee, in that they stayed wit us @ least for d initial period of their contract and even beyond. A typical exception however seems to be veron and hargreaves{due to injury}.
It sucks to a citeh fan, but d annoying thing over here in Nigeria is that most arsenal fans have moved on loan to citeh, cos they are jealous of us and wished we were in their position too.
GGMU
guys,
the key point is that city were a midtable club flirting with relegation when they were bought out by sheikh mansour……the abu dhabi group decided to make a massive investment in the club and they wnt be selling out in the forseeable future(20 yrs or so) the thing is that the investment they are making will improve infrastructure and raise the general profile of the club…….city needed to pay over the top wage and transfer fees to bring players of a certain calibre to the club….while this was perhaps regrettable…it has gone a long way in raising the clubs worldwide image and general status…….thus the club even after and if these owners leave will permenantly have a place among england,s elite…..esp because its not going to be like blackburns one season wonder…..this is a long term project with the stated objective of raisin city upto the level of europe’s elite……..thats why a huge amount has been spent in the academy as well….in time such high investment will no longer be required and youth can step in slowly….