Stuart Brennan could actually go much further. His article makes the point that United's starting eleven cost £13 million more than City's starting eleven. He points out that United had several British transfer record holders at the time they were bought, but he doesn't make the point that 5 of the 6 most expensive players on the field were in red or that, if our best forward had played our team would still have cost less than theirs. And if their best forward had played it would have made theirs another £24 million more expensive than ours! If you consider the teams which finished the game, their team is even more expensive than ours. This is because the chosen one decided that the only hope of staving off disaster was to deliver a full blooded kick-in-the-whatsits to their much trumpeted policy of investing in young British talent and to bring on expensive foreigners: Valencia for Fellaini actually reduced the cost of their team, but Kagawa for Cleverley and the sweet pea for Welbeck bumped it up again. At the end the United eleven was £7 million more expensive than at the start. And good news for the future, it was the old men, bought for record fees some ten years ago Moyes kept on, rather than the middle aged men bought for inflated fees more recently! City's eleven had actually got £10 million cheaper in the course of 90 minutes as garcia replaced Navas, Milner came on for Nasri and Negredo replaced Dzeko. As United get more and more reckless as they fling money about City are actually getting more prudent. So....
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