by Owzat » Fri May 14, 2010 7:35 am
maguskwt wrote:Redman in wales wrote:maguskwt wrote:s@int wrote:I am sure plenty big teams would have loved Hyypia, Riise, Hamann, Gerrard, Carra, Kewell, Owen under Houllier too mate, the difference being we weren't a selling club then, maybe this season we will find out that's just what we have become.
None of them would fetch a price like Gerrard, Torres, Reina and Mascherano now though...
well thats because times have changed.
relatively they would
back then (summer 2004, when rafa took over) the highest transfer fee involving a british club was £29.1m - now its £80m.
£80m is the fee that skews that comparison, the next highest fee is £32.5m n'est pas..................? That's only £3.4m more than back then. THAT £80m smashed the overall transfer record which was £56m for Kaka and that had only just overtaken the £43/£46m fee paid for Zidane (two wikipedia pages contradict each other's fees, but both are mid-40s so not vastly different) Even now with citeh spending money L,R&C like its gone out of fashion, I believe they've yet to land signings that break or smash the old record (lots there or thereabouts)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_football_transfer_record
Interesting read that, I suspect even dickheads who bitch about (posting) stats 
might take a look - though they'd probably never admit it
Last four transfer record breakers were all to Real Madrid, prior to that ITALY dominated the records between 1952 and 2000 breaking the record SEVENTEEN times out of the 21 times the record was broken (progressive obviously)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...._recordLast edited by
Owzat on Fri May 14, 2010 7:38 am, edited 1 time in total.
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I think everyone here would love us to win the EPL with a new manager. 
but i dont matter , do i 
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