I would take issue with a lot of this, but for now I'll concentrate on the last sentence. If we spent a lot in the past and didn't win the PL, why does spending so much now mean we must compete? It's about who you buy and how you use them, not simply how much they cost. That table is misleading in so many ways.
You do have to consider net spend though, because a lot of our spending has followed losing a big asset. Owen didn't go for much back then, but we wasted the money and swap deal Mascherano and Alonso and then Torres. Complete waste of all that money Suarez, may aswell lost him on a free Sterling went for a lot and we wasted it yet again. Coutinho more recently, at least this time we have bought top talent. That is probably the first time we didn't just spend for spend sake
here is a list of players bought since 1992 ARRIVALS 18/19 Players Club Transfer sum Alisson AS Roma £56.25m Naby Keïta RB Leipzig £54.00m Fabinho AS Monaco £40.50m Xherdan Shaqiri Stoke City £13.23m ARRIVALS 17/18 Players Club Virgil van Dijk Southampton FC £70.92m Mohamed Salah AS Roma £37.80m Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Arsenal FC £34.20m Andrew Robertson Hull City £8.10m Tony Gallacher Falkirk FC £205k Dominic Solanke Chelsea FC U23 Free Transfer ARRIVALS 16/17 Players Club Sadio Mané Southampton FC £37.08m Georginio Wijnaldum Newcastle United £24.75m Loris Karius 1.FSV Mainz 05 £5.58m Ragnar Klavan FC Augsburg £4.50m Alexander Manninger FC Augsburg Free Transfer Joel Matip FC Schalke 04 Free Transfer ARRIVALS 15/16 Players Club Christian Benteke Aston Villa £41.85m Roberto Firmino TSG 1899 Hoffenheim £36.90m Nathaniel Clyne Southampton FC £15.93m Danny Ings Burnley FC £7.47m Marko Grujic Red Star Belgrade £6.30m Joe Gomez Charlton Athletic £4.41m James Milner Manchester City Free Transfer Ádám Bogdán Bolton Wanderers Free Transfer Steven Caulker Queens Park Rangers Loan ARRIVALS 14/15 Players Club Adam Lallana Southampton FC £27.90m Dejan Lovren Southampton FC £22.77m Lazar Markovic SL Benfica £22.50m Mario Balotelli AC Milan £18.00m Alberto Moreno Sevilla FC £16.20m Divock Origi LOSC Lille £11.37m Emre Can Bayer 04 Leverkusen £10.80m Rickie Lambert Southampton FC £4.95m Javier Manquillo Atlético Madrid Loan fee: £1.80m Kevin Stewart Tottenham Hotspur Free Transfer ARRIVALS 13/14 Players Club Mamadou Sakho Paris Saint-Germain £17.10m Iago Aspas Celta de Vigo £9.72m Simon Mignolet Sunderland AFC £9.54m Luis Alberto Sevilla FC £7.20m Tiago Ilori Sporting CP £6.75m Victor Moses Chelsea FC Loan fee: £1.08m Aly Cissokho Valencia CF Loan fee: £900k Kolo Touré Manchester City Free Transfer ARRIVALS 12/13 Players Club Joe Allen Swansea City £17.10m Daniel Sturridge Chelsea FC £13.50m Fabio Borini AS Roma £11.97m Philippe Coutinho FC Internazionale £11.70m Nuri Sahin Real Madrid Loan fee: £4.50m Oussama Assaidi SC Heerenveen £3.60m Samed Yesil Bayer 04 Leverkusen £1.17m ARRIVALS 11/12 Players Club Stewart Downing Aston Villa £20.52m Jordan Henderson Sunderland AFC £16.20m Charlie Adam Blackpool FC £7.56m Sebastián Coates Club Nacional £7.20m José Enrique Newcastle United £7.20m João Carlos Teixeira Sporting CP U19 £1.08m Danny Ward Wrexham AFC £113k Doni AS Roma Free Transfer Craig Bellamy Manchester City Free Transfer ARRIVALS 10/11 Players Club Andy Carroll Newcastle United £36.90m Luis Suárez Ajax Amsterdam £23.85m Raúl Meireles FC Porto £11.70m Christian Poulsen Juventus FC £4.93m Paul Konchesky Fulham FC £3.60m Brad Jones Middlesbrough FC £2.52m Danny Wilson Rangers FC £2.48m Jonjo Shelvey Charlton Athletic £1.80m Milan Jovanovic Standard Liège Free Transfer Joe Cole Chelsea FC Free Transfer ARRIVALS 09/10 Players Club Glen Johnson Portsmouth FC £18.45m Alberto Aquilani AS Roma £18.00m Sotiris Kyrgiakos AEK Athens £2.70m Maxi Rodríguez Atlético Madrid Free Transfer ARRIVALS 08/09 Players Club Robbie Keane Tottenham Hotspur £21.60m Javier Mascherano West Ham United £20.25m Albert Riera RCD Espanyol Barcelona £8.82m Andrea Dossena Udinese Calcio £8.10m Diego Cavalieri Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras £3.96m David N'Gog Paris Saint-Germain £1.35m Péter Gulácsi MTK Budapest U19 £225k Philipp Degen Borussia Dortmund Free Transfer ARRIVALS 07/08 Players Club Fernando Torres Atlético Madrid £34.20m Ryan Babel Ajax Amsterdam £15.53m Martin Skrtel Zenit St. Petersburg £9.00m Lucas Leiva Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense £9.00m Yossi Benayoun West Ham United £6.57m Krisztián Németh MTK Budapest £2.70m Sebastián Leto Club Atlético Lanús £2.70m Charles Itandje RC Lens £1.35m Damien Plessis Olympique Lyon B £450k Nikolay Mihaylov Levski Sofia £135k Emiliano Insúa Club Atlético Boca Juniors Swap deal Andriy Voronin Bayer 04 Leverkusen Free Transfer Ryan Crowther Stockport County Free Transfer ARRIVALS 06/07 Players Club Dirk Kuyt Feyenoord Rotterdam £16.20m Jermaine Pennant Birmingham City £8.19m Craig Bellamy Blackburn Rovers £8.10m Álvaro Arbeloa Deportivo de La Coruña £3.51m Gabriel Paletta Club Atlético Banfield £2.43m Javier Mascherano West Ham United Loan fee: £1.80m Astrit Ajdarevic Falkenbergs FF £1.08m Emiliano Insúa Club Atlético Boca Juniors Loan fee: £90k Nabil El Zhar AS Saint-Étienne B Free Transfer Fábio Aurélio Valencia CF Free Transfer Robbie Fowler Manchester City Free Transfer ARRIVALS 05/06 Players Club Mohamed Sissoko Valencia CF £10.80m Peter Crouch Southampton FC £9.45m Pepe Reina Villarreal CF £8.82m Daniel Agger Bröndby IF £7.88m Mark González Albacete Balompié £2.25m Besian Idrizaj LASK £248k Jack Hobbs Lincoln City £203k Jan Kromkamp Villarreal CF Swap deal Miki Roqué UE Lleida Free Transfer Ramon Calliste Manchester United U23 Free Transfer Antonio Barragán Sevilla FC B Free Transfer Boudewijn Zenden Middlesbrough FC Free Transfer David Martin Milton Keynes Dons Free Transfer ARRIVALS 04/05 Players Club Djibril Cissé AJ Auxerre £18.00m Xabi Alonso Real Sociedad £14.40m Fernando Morientes Real Madrid £8.33m Luis García FC Barcelona £7.88m Josemi Málaga CF £2.70m Scott Carson Leeds United £1.26m Mauricio Pellegrino Valencia CF Free Transfer Antonio Núñez Real Madrid Free Transfer ARRIVALS 03/04 Players Club Harry Kewell Leeds United £9.00m Steve Finnan Fulham FC £4.73m Florent Sinama-Pongolle AC Le Havre £360k Darren Potter Blackburn Rovers U18 Free Transfer Carl Medjani AS Saint-Étienne B Free Transfer Paul Jones Southampton FC Loan ARRIVALS 02/03 Players Club El-Hadji Diouf RC Lens £13.50m Salif Diao CS Sedan-Ardennes £6.75m Bruno Cheyrou LOSC Lille £5.85m Anthony Le Tallec AC Le Havre U19 £2.25m Patrice Luzi AC Ajaccio Free Transfer Alou Diarra Bayern Munich Free Transfer ARRIVALS 01/02 Players Club Chris Kirkland Coventry City £7.38m Jerzy Dudek Feyenoord Rotterdam £6.66m Milan Baros FC Banik Ostrava £6.30m John Arne Riise AS Monaco £5.49m Nicolas Anelka Paris Saint-Germain Loan fee: £1.26m Abel Xavier Everton FC £1.08m ARRIVALS 00/01 Players Club Nick Barmby Everton FC £8.10m Christian Ziege Middlesbrough FC £8.10m Igor Biscan GNK Dinamo Zagreb £7.43m Bernard Diomède AJ Auxerre £4.05m Daniel Sjölund West Ham United £1.35m Gary McAllister Coventry City £900k Grégory Vignal HSC Montpellier £675k Markus Babbel Bayern Munich Free Transfer Jari Litmanen FC Barcelona Free Transfer Pegguy Arphexad Leicester City Free Transfer ARRIVALS 99/00 Players Club Emile Heskey Leicester City £14.85m Dietmar Hamann Newcastle United £10.80m Vladimir Smicer RC Lens £6.12m Sander Westerveld Vitesse Arnhem £5.40m Stéphane Henchoz Blackburn Rovers £4.86m Sami Hyypiä Willem II Tilburg £4.05m Erik Meijer Bayer 04 Leverkusen Free Transfer Titi Camara Olympique Marseille ? ARRIVALS 98/99 Players Club Vegard Heggem Rosenborg BK £4.68m Rigobert Song US Salernitana 1919 £3.22m Sean Dundee Karlsruher SC £2.48m Frode Kippe Lilleström SK £945k Djimi Traoré Stade Laval £720k Steve Staunton Aston Villa Free Transfer ARRIVALS 97/98 Players Club Paul Ince FC Internazionale £5.67m Öyvind Leonhardsen Wimbledon FC £4.73m Danny Murphy Crewe Alexandra £2.70m Karl-Heinz Riedle Borussia Dortmund £2.25m Brad Friedel Columbus Crew SC £1.35m Jørgen Nielsen Hvidovre IF Free Transfer ARRIVALS 96/97 Players Club Patrik Berger Borussia Dortmund £3.15m Bjørn Tore Kvarme Rosenborg BK Free Transfer ARRIVALS 95/96 Players Club Stan Collymore Nottingham Forest £11.70m Jason McAteer Bolton Wanderers £5.63m Stephen Pears Middlesbrough FC Free Transfer ARRIVALS 94/95 Players Club Phil Babb Coventry City £4.88m John Scales Wimbledon FC £3.51m Mark Kennedy Millwall FC £1.85m Michael Stensgaard Hvidovre IF £432k ARRIVALS 93/94 Players Club Nigel Clough Nottingham Forest £2.48m Julian Dicks West Ham United £2.03m Neil Ruddock Tottenham Hotspur £2.5m ARRIVALS 92/93 Players Club Paul Stewart Tottenham Hotspur £2.48m David James Watford FC £1.26m Torben Piechnik FC Copenhagen £0.5m Lee Jones Wrexham AFC £0.3m Stig Inge Björnebye Rosenborg BK ?
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It really depends then on how you calculate NPV (what inflation rate you take) so.... i think this things record has been abysmal in the past.
Some of you on here have far too much time on your hands. I hope you are spending my tax money wisely on beer and drugs
Add to those names Steve McManaman who ran his contract down and left on a Bosman, we lost a decent fee on a player who was a bigger star for them than Owen.
Can't blame Martin O'Neill kicking off about the Danish football crisis, how the **** can Uefa/FIFA allow them to play in an international tournament while the current situation exists. There's a possibility that Wales might play a Danish team made up of Futsal players before it's ironed out and ROI having to play the full international team after it is sorted out.
The NL is very important to the smaller nations and are not friendlies. Group B4 of the Nations League. Denmark Republic of Ireland Wales Denmark's next game is Wales, and that's where the problem begins if they play a 5 a-side team, by the time Ireland play them it could be sorted.
Just ban the Irish and Welsh teams from any tournament. Problem solved And ban the danish as well. tell them to sort their **** out
No... it’s a bunch of friendlies put into a ‘league’ that no one is going to care about because it’s not the WC or Euros. Do you think they players that have pulled out for these games would have done so if it was a WC? No... proving that the players don’t see hem as anything more than friendlies
So, you think managers would not object to their best players being called up if the games were no more than "friendlies"? As Dribs said players can pick up serious injuries in these games that could have a bearing on a clubs season. Like I said, these games are important to the smaller nations who will play full strength teams in their matches.