United "buying title"?

[Big Swifty]

With Utd getting Zaha for (potentially) £15m, and RVP earlier, adding to the Rooneys, Youngs, Carricks, Joneses etc, why is it they are not accused of Buying The Title, when we would be panned for doing the same?
Can some clever Bluemooner post an itemized breakdown of United's expenditure on their current squad of players for me? (It'd be nice to show the list to any Rag who accuses City of lavish spending, and tell him/her what the grand total is.)
Thanks.

 

[Swales lives]

All the players are from their Youth Academy, you should know that.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

With Utd getting Zaha for (potentially) £15m, and RVP earlier, adding to the Rooneys, Youngs, Carricks, Joneses etc, why is it they are not accused of Buying The Title, when we would be panned for doing the same?
Can some clever Bluemooner post an itemized breakdown of United's expenditure on their current squad of players for me? (It'd be nice to show the list to any Rag who accuses City of lavish spending, and tell him/her what the grand total is.)
Thanks.

at the end of the year it might be fun telling them they bought 2nd place

 

[Anonymous]

Because it's money they've "earned", silly.

 

[waspish]

Re: United "buying title"?

They have always bought trophies If scumface had the money Moyes has had he would of been lucky if they won 3 trophies in 25 years!

 

[Anonymous]

Another one who doesn't get it. Because they "earned" it, it doesn't really count as spend. It actually counts as "savings".

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Another one who doesn't get it. Because they "earned" it, it doesn't really count as spend. It actually counts as "savings".

Successful teams like Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool have been built up on the back of support of their fans. Decades of loyally supporting their clubs, watching the club grow and the stadium improved, are suddenly turned over by a rival having a foreign dictator spending hundreds of millions of in ill-gotten gains on their latest plaything. This repellent injection of money bypasses decades of development undergone by other clubs. Only one word for it: cheating. Brianconwy, Conwy.

martin samuels response
Oh, cut the sanctimony mate. There is not a single elite club that did not at one time invest to the very limit of its means, and in some cases beyond, as a way of growing the business. Just because that happened before you were alive or took an interest in football does not make it any less significant. And why does it matter whether the owner is foreign? Aren’t they foreign at Liverpool, United and Arsenal, too?



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[Anonymous]

Actually I made a mistake, it's not counted as "savings", it's actually counted as "charitable donation".

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

All the players are from their Youth Academy, you should know that.

And they don't pay fees for them but they do have this unique accounting cost transfer arrangement whereby the first team 'reimburse' the academy for the players. Of course it's just a paper transaction and no money actually changes hands.

 

[Anonymous]

Good old wooden dollars.