bluemoondays
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This pisses me off when other teams fans casually drop the 'billion pounds' spent line.
I've taken the figures from <a class="postlink" href="http://www.transferleague.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.transferleague.co.uk/</a> - some are probably out but couldn't be arsed going through it line by line and just assumed the incorrect figures balance up in the transfer out and in columns.
By my reckoning, since 08/09 we've spent circa £640m gross, not even close to a billion (still a shedload of money)
If you look at the net figures I bring it out at £479m if you include all of 08/09 - if you adjust for only transfers in/out after Robinho, then we've spent around £449m net - significantly LESS than HALF a billion (reason why I dug into this). To put this in perspective, Chelsea spent around £300m in 03 to 06 from a significantly stronger team position as a starting point. The figures aren't adjusted for player price inflation e.g. Torres going for £50m a few years back. If you added in player price inflation over five years we'd probably look a lot better..............
Some rough calculations on net spend since 08/09, here's the shocker :p - the net spend pretty much shows the end of league team positions - with the exception of the rags :-) - sort of distorted by 2 huge individual player sales for Ronaldo and Bale. To me it demonstrates that a) Wenger and Levy need to put their hands in their owners pockets, b) Everton need some money from somewhere or their owner needs to start actually investing in the squad (where does all their top 5/6 position PL income go????), c) Rags are doing shite going by money spent and d) Liverpool are doing reasonably well in terms of net spend......
City £449m
Chelsea £228m
Rags £140m
Liverpool £90m
Arsenal £0m
Spuds -£2m (minus)
Everton -£29m (minus)
I think we are now at the same point as Chelsea and most of our spending for the foreseeable future will be (probably) a marquee signing per year (£20-40m) and all other spending will be 'one-in, one-out'. Maybe a bit more if we get a few nice sponsorship deals ;-)
I also expect our net spend to plummet down over the next few years - out squad is now built, it's just about adding a few world class players and dealing with players leaving.
I've taken the figures from <a class="postlink" href="http://www.transferleague.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.transferleague.co.uk/</a> - some are probably out but couldn't be arsed going through it line by line and just assumed the incorrect figures balance up in the transfer out and in columns.
By my reckoning, since 08/09 we've spent circa £640m gross, not even close to a billion (still a shedload of money)
If you look at the net figures I bring it out at £479m if you include all of 08/09 - if you adjust for only transfers in/out after Robinho, then we've spent around £449m net - significantly LESS than HALF a billion (reason why I dug into this). To put this in perspective, Chelsea spent around £300m in 03 to 06 from a significantly stronger team position as a starting point. The figures aren't adjusted for player price inflation e.g. Torres going for £50m a few years back. If you added in player price inflation over five years we'd probably look a lot better..............
Some rough calculations on net spend since 08/09, here's the shocker :p - the net spend pretty much shows the end of league team positions - with the exception of the rags :-) - sort of distorted by 2 huge individual player sales for Ronaldo and Bale. To me it demonstrates that a) Wenger and Levy need to put their hands in their owners pockets, b) Everton need some money from somewhere or their owner needs to start actually investing in the squad (where does all their top 5/6 position PL income go????), c) Rags are doing shite going by money spent and d) Liverpool are doing reasonably well in terms of net spend......
City £449m
Chelsea £228m
Rags £140m
Liverpool £90m
Arsenal £0m
Spuds -£2m (minus)
Everton -£29m (minus)
I think we are now at the same point as Chelsea and most of our spending for the foreseeable future will be (probably) a marquee signing per year (£20-40m) and all other spending will be 'one-in, one-out'. Maybe a bit more if we get a few nice sponsorship deals ;-)
I also expect our net spend to plummet down over the next few years - out squad is now built, it's just about adding a few world class players and dealing with players leaving.