41million

[BusterPhillips]

Is the difference between how much we've spent in comparison to Spurs.

I was a bit board this morning so did some investigation on wiki about the two squads (check out the list below).

I was a bit surprised at first, I didnt realise just how much money Spurs have spent building up their team. What I found very interesting though is the ammount of home grown players that have gone on to graduate as regualr first teamers - Spurs in comparison to City have just the 1 graduate in King (with a couple of youngsters who get odd game here and there..).

There's obviously been a couple of signings where we have been ripped off (Toure, Robinho), but to be honest I am happy with the money we have spent on Tevez, Manu and Lescott (yes I said it). Some of our signings have been awsome, I talking about Kompany, Zabba & Shay here.

The real transfer value of the players we bought in the summer should have actually been about half what we said, the media seem to think that a 200m team should play like Real Madrid, when in fact Real Madrid spent over 200m in the summer on 4x players.

I guess what I am trying to say is that our figures are bloated by several high profile signings when the majority of our key players were assembled at a modest cost (Shay, Richards, Ireland, Johnson, Tevez, Kompany etc..) whereas Spurs have spent a lot of money spread across all there players with no youth or academy players.

I think its a bit rich for Spurs fans to give us grief for ruining football when they but players year in and year out and do nothing to encourage youth development.

Given - 6m
Hart - Academy
Richards - Academy
Bridge - 12m
Onuoha - Academy
Zabaleta - 5m
M.Johnson - Academy
Ireland - Academy
Wright-Phillips - 8m
A.Johnson - 6m
Taylor - Free
Santa Cruz - 16m
Garrido - 2m
Sylvinho - Free
Robino - 32m
Petrov - 4.5m
Barry - 12m
Lescott - 22
Vieira - Free
Adebayor - 25m
Touré - 12m
Tévez - 25m
Kompany - 6m
de Jong - 16m
Bellamy - 14m
Boyata - Academy
Cunningham - Academy
Ibrahim - Academy
Nimely - Academy
211.5m


Gomes - 8m
Bale - 10m
Kaboul - 9.5m
Bentley - 17m
Huddlestone - 3m
Lennon - 1m
Jenas - 7m
Pavlyuchenko - 14m
Palacios - 14m
Modric - 16.5m
Crouch - 10m
Gudjohnsen - loan
Defoe - 16m
Bassong - 9m
Dawson - 5m
Kranjcar - 2.5m
Corluka - 9m
Cudicini - free
King - academy graduate
Alnwick - 1m
Walker - 4m
Naughton - 5m
Assou-Ekotto - 4m
Woodgate - 8m
Keane - 12m
169.5m

 

[bluemanc]

The spending is often used by other clubs fans & some of our poorer ones as a stick to beat us with,the money we have spent is a direct result of telling the world we would pay ANYTHING for players & pay ANYTHING the said players wanted in wages.

 

[Outrun]

Didn't Toure cost £16m, De Jong £18m and Santa Cruz £18m?

 

[Bell End]

Does anyone know where I can watch the Birmingham game in town this afternoon?

Is the difference between how much we've spent in comparison to Spurs.

I was a bit board this morning so did some investigation on wiki about the two squads (check out the list below).

I was a bit surprised at first, I didnt realise just how much money Spurs have spent building up their team. What I found very interesting though is the ammount of home grown players that have gone on to graduate as regualr first teamers - Spurs in comparison to City have just the 1 graduate in King (with a couple of youngsters who get odd game here and there..).

There's obviously been a couple of signings where we have been ripped off (Toure, Robinho), but to be honest I am happy with the money we have spent on Tevez, Manu and Lescott (yes I said it). Some of our signings have been awsome, I talking about Kompany, Zabba & Shay here.

The real transfer value of the players we bought in the summer should have actually been about half what we said, the media seem to think that a 200m team should play like Real Madrid, when in fact Real Madrid spent over 200m in the summer on 4x players.

I guess what I am trying to say is that our figures are bloated by several high profile signings when the majority of our key players were assembled at a modest cost (Shay, Richards, Ireland, Johnson, Tevez, Kompany etc..) whereas Spurs have spent a lot of money spread across all there players with no youth or academy players.

I think its a bit rich for Spurs fans to give us grief for ruining football when they but players year in and year out and do nothing to encourage youth development.

Given - 6m
Hart - Academy
Richards - Academy
Bridge - 12m
Onuoha - Academy
Zabaleta - 5m
M.Johnson - Academy
Ireland - Academy
Wright-Phillips - 8m
A.Johnson - 6m
Taylor - Free
Santa Cruz - 16m
Garrido - 2m
Sylvinho - Free
Robino - 32m
Petrov - 4.5m
Barry - 12m
Lescott - 22
Vieira - Free
Adebayor - 25m
Touré - 12m
Tévez - 25m
Kompany - 6m
de Jong - 16m
Bellamy - 14m
Boyata - Academy
Cunningham - Academy
Ibrahim - Academy
Nimely - Academy
211.5m


Gomes - 8m
Bale - 10m
Kaboul - 9.5m
Bentley - 17m
Huddlestone - 3m
Lennon - 1m
Jenas - 7m
Pavlyuchenko - 14m
Palacios - 14m
Modric - 16.5m
Crouch - 10m
Gudjohnsen - loan
Defoe - 16m
Bassong - 9m
Dawson - 5m
Kranjcar - 2.5m
Corluka - 9m
Cudicini - free
King - academy graduate
Alnwick - 1m
Walker - 4m
Naughton - 5m
Assou-Ekotto - 4m
Woodgate - 8m
Keane - 12m
169.5m

 

[Skashion]

EssexYid will be along in a minute to complain that Spurs built that team with their own revenues. Not that it isn't a fair point, because I believe that it is, but it just shows that to break the top four you do have to spend money - no matter where it comes from. It's also great that we clearly have a better academy than Spurs. I do hope we continue to place massive emphasis on our youth academy - after all, it's worked for Barca. I'm optimistic on that front too. :)

 

[1337]

Bentley worth more than modric wtf!!!

 

[Garrinchas---Dog]

SWP cost nothing,he was sold for £21mill,thencame back
for £8mill,so he made us money

 

[Bill]

The spending is often used by other clubs fans & some of our poorer ones as a stick to beat us with,the money we have spent is a direct result of telling the world we would pay ANYTHING for players & pay ANYTHING the said players wanted in wages.

we need to spend that amount just to challenge, we were a poor side overall till our owner came in, spurs have been spending for years.

 

[bluemanc]

The spending is often used by other clubs fans & some of our poorer ones as a stick to beat us with,the money we have spent is a direct result of telling the world we would pay ANYTHING for players & pay ANYTHING the said players wanted in wages.

we need to spend that amount just to challenge, we were a poor side overall till our owner came in, spurs have been spending for years.

Agreed,it was like a revolving door with players coming & going.
Very little time & other clubs holding us to ransom was part of the problem aswell,tbh it doesn't matter though because our owner at the time was willing to spend whatever it took.