gordondaviesmoustache
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No mate. Never seen it before.Who needs the full celebration when this will suffice
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Transfer fee inflation. Who's ruining football?
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Interesting article. The fact is, the scum have always spent big. It started well before the Premier League era.
1989
Webb - £1.5m
Pallister - £2.3m
Ince - £2.4m
Wallace - £1.2
Irwin - 625k
Identify the best players from your rivals, chuck in a huge bid and double their wages.
It's the united way. C**ts.
1989
Webb - £1.5m
Pallister - £2.3m
Ince - £2.4m
Wallace - £1.2
Irwin - 625k
Identify the best players from your rivals, chuck in a huge bid and double their wages.
It's the united way. C**ts.
jaiguruKun
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Interesting article. The fact is, the scum have always spent big. It started well before the Premier League era.
1989
Webb - £1.5m
Pallister - £2.3m
Ince - £2.4m
Wallace - £1.2
Irwin - 625k
Identify the best players from your rivals, chuck in a huge bid and double their wages.
It's the united way. C**ts.
That was the same year that Michael Knighton nearly bought a controlling stake for £10m. The Glazers wouldn't even consider selling now unless it was for around 300 times that amount. Football is the most widely watched sport in the world and the PL is the most commercially succesful. When you think of it like that, the current level of fees is unsurprising.
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am i the only one that is puzzle when they say things like that (ruining football)
i see it the other way it brings in money to clubs and football they can spend it or bank it and the premier league always are looking for investment in there teams so if anybody is at fault its the premier league and skysports they want the best players to sell the tv rights around the world
its a money go round and one club got more than the rest and they don't like it (united) have been doing what ever they like for years and years even the so called old school super sunday teams of arsenal and liverpool could not do anything about united and the power and money they had built up they could only win the premier league when united was going for the champions league or in the world club cup it was a one team league back then
but the door was loosen with chelsea and the money from russia a new way of fighting back but united still had a upper hand of things with money and power chelsea was not seen as a danger just more of a club flashing the cash on average players only wanting to go to chelsea for the money
but manchester city was another thing not only did united wilt but we knocked them out of the champions league places we was a different fish in the sea that nobody seen before we could not only battle with the best for players but manchester city was a sleeping giant it had glory and history and fans the money was only to put manchester city back on the map we will get right to the top and beyond its got both things that football needs and one of them was to topple united the other is to doing again and again
i see it the other way it brings in money to clubs and football they can spend it or bank it and the premier league always are looking for investment in there teams so if anybody is at fault its the premier league and skysports they want the best players to sell the tv rights around the world
its a money go round and one club got more than the rest and they don't like it (united) have been doing what ever they like for years and years even the so called old school super sunday teams of arsenal and liverpool could not do anything about united and the power and money they had built up they could only win the premier league when united was going for the champions league or in the world club cup it was a one team league back then
but the door was loosen with chelsea and the money from russia a new way of fighting back but united still had a upper hand of things with money and power chelsea was not seen as a danger just more of a club flashing the cash on average players only wanting to go to chelsea for the money
but manchester city was another thing not only did united wilt but we knocked them out of the champions league places we was a different fish in the sea that nobody seen before we could not only battle with the best for players but manchester city was a sleeping giant it had glory and history and fans the money was only to put manchester city back on the map we will get right to the top and beyond its got both things that football needs and one of them was to topple united the other is to doing again and again
I do think it's incredible how quickly the transfer market normalises new, big fees.
We've definitely played our part, as have other most other clubs.
We sign Mangala for £32m and within 2 years £30m becomes the de facto standard price of a top CB. I think before he moved, there'd been 2 £30m+ CB's - Ferdinand and Thiago Silva. Now there's Mangala, Bailly, Lindelof, Bonucci, Hummels, Otamendi, Stones, Mustafi, Luiz (twice)...it's just the norm now.
Juventus spend £75m on Higuain, and the price of a top striker becomes £75m+ - see Lukaku, Morata and asking prices for Bellotti.
We've spent £50m on a new fullback and now that will be the price demanded of an English club for a top class fullback.
It seems that it really doesn't take much at all for the market to set a new standard price, and then stick to it, and I think it really benefits anyone who is prepared to go first, as you know that short of going really way, way out of line, the clubs around you will normalise the fee within a couple of years.
We've definitely played our part, as have other most other clubs.
We sign Mangala for £32m and within 2 years £30m becomes the de facto standard price of a top CB. I think before he moved, there'd been 2 £30m+ CB's - Ferdinand and Thiago Silva. Now there's Mangala, Bailly, Lindelof, Bonucci, Hummels, Otamendi, Stones, Mustafi, Luiz (twice)...it's just the norm now.
Juventus spend £75m on Higuain, and the price of a top striker becomes £75m+ - see Lukaku, Morata and asking prices for Bellotti.
We've spent £50m on a new fullback and now that will be the price demanded of an English club for a top class fullback.
It seems that it really doesn't take much at all for the market to set a new standard price, and then stick to it, and I think it really benefits anyone who is prepared to go first, as you know that short of going really way, way out of line, the clubs around you will normalise the fee within a couple of years.
What goal celebration was that? Has anyone got a clip?
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That bloke in the yellow shirt looks like he's about to explode...
My favourite is the one in black, who starts at the back and ends up near the front.
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Interesting article. The fact is, the scum have always spent big. It started well before the Premier League era.
1989
Webb - £1.5m
Pallister - £2.3m
Ince - £2.4m
Wallace - £1.2
Irwin - 625k
Identify the best players from your rivals, chuck in a huge bid and double their wages.
It's the united way. C**ts.
It started long before that.
In 1981, the rags bought captain cripple for £1.5m from West Brom.
That was a mad fee at the time, they bought loads of expensive players but still couldn't topple Liverpool.It started long before that.
In 1981, the rags bought captain cripple for £1.5m from West Brom.
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Daniel Levy's one of them