UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[waspish]

The scum first big spend under fergie was one and half times there turnover that's like them spending 1.25 Billion this summer. Scum have always inflated the market they are utter two faced scum fcukers.

 

[M18CTID]

Did I ?

My issue is you pretending united didn't/haven't inflated transfer prices, they have regularly, and by considerably more than we have ever done, and they have decades of history of doing it as @M18CTID pointed out also.

Let’s also not forget Leeds under Ridsdale during that mad spell they had of spending at will and mortgaging themselves up to the hilt. They didn’t break too many transfer records but were buying up every fucker and his dog.

 

[domalino]

Did I ?

My issue is you pretending united didn't/haven't inflated transfer prices,

I never said that.

So you missed the point and your issue is completely fictional.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Again that's not really true either. What both ourselves and Chelsea did was normalise what was considered pretty high, but not huge transfer fees.

Chelsea for example in 03-05 made £15-20m a normal transfer fee. Prior to that there'd been bigger ones like £30m for Ferdinand, but they were few and far between and 10m would get you a really good player. 15m+ was rare

Then Abramovic came along and spend 15 on Veron, 17 on Crespo, 17 on Makelele, 14 on Robben and 14 on Ferreira, 15 on Mutu, 18 on Duff. Suddenly good players for a top 4 side cost £15m+ as standard, everyone else had to catch up.

And we did the same with the £25m transfer fee. Pretty uncommon before 2008, but 18 months later we'd normalised that as the fee for a very good player.

In reality these are much more important to transfer inflation than the once a decade, blows everyone out of the water transfer like Neymars or Ronaldo.

My point to people who say we inflated the market would be 1) Yes, who gives a shit? and 2) You shouldn't have made us spend very big very fast by introducing FFP and making a long project get condensed into 2 summers of spending 3) Every club who we bought a player off should be thanking Abu Dhabi for their cash injection and 4) It's really only accelerating a naturally occurring process anyway.

Your last paragraph is perfect. The rest I disagree with.

In 2007, United paid £25m for Anderson, £22.9m for Nani and £22.5 for Owen Hargreaves. None of them were either world stars at the time nor turned into world stars but the market was set.

 

[Sean85]

Your last paragraph is perfect. The rest I disagree with.

In 2007, United paid £25m for Anderson, £22.9m for Nani and £22.5 for Owen Hargreaves. None of them were either world stars at the time nor turned into world stars but the market was set.

United have consistently broke all sorts of transfer records for years, and Liverpool spent £35 million on Andy Carroll! And city get the blame for inflating fees, it's nonsense

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

United have consistently broke all sorts of transfer records for years, and Liverpool spent £35 million on Andy Carroll! And city get the blame for inflating fees, it's nonsense

We get the blame because we are not in the so called elite list, there is no other reason

 

[oldius]

October 1980 Garry Birtles £1,250,000
October 1981 Bryan Robson £1,500,000
June 1988 Mark Hughes £1,800,000
August 1989 Gary Pallister £2,300,000
July 1993 Roy Keane £3,750,000
January 1995 Andy Cole £7,000,000
July 1998 Jaap Stam £10,750,000
August 1998 Dwight Yorke £12,600,000
June 2001 Ruud van Nistelrooy £19,000,000
July 2001 Juan Sebastián Verón £28,100,000
July 2002 Rio Ferdinand £29,300,000
September 2008 Dimitar Berbatov £30,750,000
January 2014 Juan Mata £37,100,000
August 2014 Ángel Di María £59,700,000
August 2016 Paul Pogba £89,300,000

Even Michael Carrick cost £18.5m in 2004! The bold denotes a record transfer fee paid.

Some of these twenty-year-old signings were way beyond ANYONE else's means back then and that is where United fans want it to stay, hence FFP, implemented by their friends on the Uefa panel and designed to protect the historical upper echelons of the game.

Anyone who suggests to me that United are not the biggest historical spenders in the football league, and continue to be so, is talking out of their backside.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Let’s also not forget Leeds under Ridsdale during that mad spell they had of spending at will and mortgaging themselves up to the hilt. They didn’t break too many transfer records but were buying up every fucker and his dog.

David Batty was a good mongrel.

 

[rnblade]

It’s being investigated by the biggest hypocritical corrupt cnuts in football.
It’s like Blair investigating war crimes.

I’m sure our owners have a very clever and astute legal team. This could get ugly, but I’m sure that there might be some skeletons appearing out of closets that the rest of the football clubs won’t want appearing.
Wouldn’t it be funny to see Rags, Dippers etc all investigated over previous ‘financial irregularities’.

If we HAVE broken the rules, then that’s naive of us to think we wouldn’t get caught,especially as everyone is out to see us fcuked over.
I’ll be done with football if we are punished unfairly. It stinks of corruption.

 

[SilverFox2]

We get the blame because we are not in the so called elite list, there is no other reason

I think that is right, we are buying success whereas they were simply maintaining position.