Just as a reminder, our 2010/11 squad which won the FA Cup and set us on the road to glory was, as follows;
Shay Given
Micah Richards
Wayne Bridge
Vincent Kompany
Pablo Zabaleta
James Milner
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Emmanuel Adebayor
Edin Dzeko
Adam Johnson
Stuart Taylor
Alexander Kolorov
Roque Santa Cruz
Jerome Boateng
Gareth Barry
Jolean Lescott
David Silva
Greg Cunningham
Patrick Viera
Joe Hart
Jo
Kolo Toure
Carlos Tevez
Nigel de Jong
Javan Vidal
Dedryck Boyatta
Ben Mee
Yaya Toure
Alex Nimely
Mario Balotelli
Ryan McGivern
Abdisalam Ibrahim
Chris Chantler
Reece Warbara
John Guidetti and
Abdul Razak
The most expensive of those was Edin Dzeko at €37m.
Yaya was €30m and David Silva was a paltry €28.75.
Meanwhile, just for comparative purposes, united's semi final lline-up included such home grown talents as Van der Sar , Rio Ferdinand (€46m), Nemanja Vidic, Michael Carrick (€27.2m) Ji-sung Park, Dimitar Berbatov (€38m) and Oliveira Anderson (€30m).
And, of course, who could forget that the following season we blew everyone out of the water to buy Aguero for €40m when poor old liverpool were forced to make do with Andy Carroll who cost them a mere €41m the same year.
But of course, it's City that inflated transfer fees.