City & FFP | 2020/21 Accounts released | Revenues of £569.8m, £2.4m profit (p 2395)

I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find a league winning team where they've not been in the top 5 spenders during the preceding 3 seasons?
 
In the long run, until they give a trophy out for not spending much who really cares.

I'd question a club ownership and management that has the means to spend to improve their squad and chooses not to long before I'd question one that spends to improve the club.

Some gooners seem to think that making a profit is more worthy than winning games. I bet they had photos of accountants on their walls when they were kids.
 
1991-92 Season
Leeds spent 5m (net)
United spent 2m (net)
Liverpool spent 2.5 (net)
Arsenal spend 2m (net)

I don't have the time to get figures for all clubs, but the usual suspects are above, so it's looking like Leeds spent twice as much as the nearest competitor, Liverpool.
 
The very clubs that wanted the Premier league and created the beast that it is can look no further than themselves if they now want to start laying blame for no longer being the biggest dogs in the yard.

All about the benjamins since 92 and always will be.

We have the most benjamins ;-)
 
Regardless, it's safe to say, it's once in a blue moon that it happens, so there is clearly a direct correlation between spending and winning the league. If Arsenal, or anybody else thinks they won it without spending heavily they need to give their head a wobble.
Derby County supporters may be exempt until I find the figures!

Struggling with figures that far back, but we're talking 40 years... once in 40 years (if indeed Derby managed it, which is still unproven).

It comes as no surprise really, and yet startling when laid out factually. How fans can be so blind to it I don't know. This is where the argument suddenly changes between 'it's not actually the spending, it's how you come by the money' - so suddenly they accept they bought success, only they had a right to do so, and others (like us) didn't.
 
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FanchesterCity said:
I wonder how far back we'd have to go to find a league winning team where they've not been in the top 5 spenders during the preceding 3 seasons?
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A very long time?

Of course it doesn't always work. I only included the usual suspects in that previous list:

Club - Total Gross Spend 92/03

Newcastle - £185,845,000.00
Manchester United - £165,900,000.00
Liverpool - £159,125,000.00
Arsenal - £140,890,000.00
Chelsea - £136,940,000.00
Aston Villa - £114,040,000.00
Everton - £112,195,000.00
Tottenham - £103,650,000.00
Manchester City - £97,960,000.00

NUFC actually spent the most in that period for the sum total of two 2nd place finishes and two FA cup runners up.

Scum won 8 titles with the Arse on 2 and Blackburn the only outlier. Liverpool of course have spent £812,305,000 gross from '92 to date and still can't win it.
 
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