roydo
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Spending £1/2 billion on a football team?
Romelu Lukaku
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Spending £1/2 billion on a football team?
Have they seriously spent £1/2b in the last 2 seasons since he's been there ? Seems a bit high that.
roydo
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Give or take a full back, yeah. £450m Pep has spent. Whilst also inheriting a few pretty decent players all ready there. The 3 who scored today to start with.
At least when he or Begiristain has spent he has spent wisely unlike some club I won't mention.
Plus their spending has never been to spend silly money on individual players unlike PSG or Real. Even Barca have just recently spent over 140m on one player. Utd now spend more on individual players too.
The reason they have spent so much in total is because they've bought a lot of players.
Does that include all the players they buy to then loan out?
Because you do realize that's just like following the Chelsea model and most of those players won't ever play for the first team regularly or where ever bought for that reason.
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I make it about £420m, £70m of which they got back in sales so about £350m net. Still high, but they have the team and the style of football to show for it.
roydo
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Not a clue.
Oh, net spend rears its head. They play brilliant football, only a fool would disagree with that. £420m, £450m. Is a Cenk in difference really.
I don't think city's players are individually far superior than everyone else in the league but they are collectively. That's down to Pep.
Everything else is irrelevant because coaches aren't as involved in player sales etc as they used to be. Most leagues don't even call them managers anymore.
Everything else is irrelevant because coaches aren't as involved in player sales etc as they used to be. Most leagues don't even call them managers anymore.
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Player Valuation: £35m
hes spent loads no doubt but if spending money was all that mattered we should be in the top 5 and still in Europe .
goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
In fairness to Lukaku, he was one of their better players yesterday. I was at the match and he was quite active.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
It's kinda funny. Some of his best play comes from a wide position where he has a bit of space. Even for us, he was always a decent crosser (that outside of the boot cross to Kone springs to mind). Which kind of highlights the problem with United this season; they play centrally way to often. He would have to go out wide and cross it too himself because they don't want to use the width.
Rooney, Niasse, Celvert Lewing have actually spread the goals about to be honest
At this juncture, it may be worth remembering that the difference between points totals, year-on-year, was used by notable critics of Lukaku in this thread as evidence to justify the notion that he hadn't been missed much. The difference was just three at the time it was used by those opportunists (though they made the fatal mistake of failing to take into account last season's form from that point on).
It's rather unfortunate for us all that the difference with 9 games remaining now stands at 16, despite us spending a 9-figure sum on countless players and employing the services of three different managers since he left (and maybe even more before the season is out).
But not so fast. Seeing as year-on-year stats are so reliable, perhaps a measure of our competitiveness - goal difference - could be more generous to their point of view. Or, on the other hand, perhaps not. The year-on-year difference here is no less than 37. We have scored 18 goals less than last season and conceded 19 more. This is, tragically, even worse than the points difference.
Given the damning statistics quoted above and following their own logic, I can't imagine any of the posters in question still hold their position quite so steadfastly as before.
It's rather unfortunate for us all that the difference with 9 games remaining now stands at 16, despite us spending a 9-figure sum on countless players and employing the services of three different managers since he left (and maybe even more before the season is out).
But not so fast. Seeing as year-on-year stats are so reliable, perhaps a measure of our competitiveness - goal difference - could be more generous to their point of view. Or, on the other hand, perhaps not. The year-on-year difference here is no less than 37. We have scored 18 goals less than last season and conceded 19 more. This is, tragically, even worse than the points difference.
Given the damning statistics quoted above and following their own logic, I can't imagine any of the posters in question still hold their position quite so steadfastly as before.
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