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by **Reg** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:33 pm

So many names lost in the mists of time - Barragan anyone?
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June 15, 2009

The Benitez years: his transfers in full

Total gross spend: £191.309m
Total recouped: £109.51m
Total net spend: £81.799m
Players signed: 70
Players sold or let go: 72

2004

IN (4)

Xabi Alonso (Real Sociedad, £10.5m); Luis Garcia (Barcelona, £6m); Josemi (Malaga, £2m); Antonio Nunez (Real Madrid, free).

OUT (3)

Michael Owen (Real Madrid, £8m); Danny Murphy (Charlton Athletic, £2.5m); Markus Babbel (VfB Stuttgart, free).

Spent £18.5m; recouped £10.5m; net spend £8m

2005

IN (14)

Peter Crouch (Southampton, £7m); Fernando Morientes (Real Madrid, £6.3m); Jose Manuel Reina (Villarreal, £6m); Mohamed Sissoko (Valencia, £5.6m); Mark Gonzalez (Albacete, £3.5m); Scott Carson (Leeds United, £750,000); Antonio Barragan (Seville, £240,000); Besian Idrizaj (Linzer ASK, £190,000); Jack Hobbs (Lincoln City, £150,000); Mauricio Pellegrino (Valencia, free); Boudewijn Zenden (Middlesbrough, free); Godwin Antwi (Real Zaragoza, free); Ramon Calliste (Manchester United, free), Miki Roque (Llieda, free).

OUT (14)

Milan Baros (Aston Villa, £6.5m); El-Hadji Diouf (Bolton, £4.5m); Alou Diarra (Lens, £2m); Antonio Nunez (Celta Vigo, £2m); Igor Biscan (Panathinaikos, free); Stephane Henchoz (Celtic, free); Mauricio Pellegrino (Alaves, free); Vladimir Smicer (Bordeaux, free); Gregory Vignal (Portsmouth, free); Paul Harrison (Wolves, free); Jon Otsemobor (Rotherham United, free); Ritchie Partridge (Sheffield Wednesday, free); Mark Smyth (Accrington, free); Patrice Luzi (released).
Spent £29.73m; recouped £15m; net spend £14.73m

2006

IN (11)

Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord, £9m); Jermaine Pennant (Birmingham City, £6.7m); Craig Bellamy (Blackburn Rovers, £6m); Daniel Agger (Brondby, £5.8m); Gabriel Paletta (Banfield, £2m); Fabio Aurelio (Valencia, free); Nabil El Zhar (St Etienne, free); Robbie Fowler (Manchester City, free); Jan Kromkamp (Villarreal, free); Paul Anderson (Hull City, free); David Martin (MK Dons, free).

OUT (19)

Chris Kirkland (Wigan Athletic, £3.5m); Fernando Morientes (Valencia, £3.1m); Jan Kromkamp (PSV Eindhoven, £2m); Djimi Traore (Charlton Athletic, £2m); Antonio Barragan (Deportivo La Coruna, £680,000); Neil Mellor (Preston North End, £500,000); Dietmar Hamann (Manchester City via Bolton Wanderers, £400,000); Bruno Cheyrou (Rennes, free); Josemi (Villarreal, free); Ramon Calliste (Scunthorpe United, free); Robbie Foy (Scunthorpe United, free); Carl Medjani (Leyton Orient, free); Conal Platt (Bournemouth, free); David Raven (Carlisle United, free); John Welsh (Hull City, free); Zak Whitbread (Millwall, free); Calum Woods (Dunfermline, free); Ryan Wilkie (released); Paul Willis (released).

Spent £29.5m; recouped £12.18m; net spend £17.32m

2007

IN (26)

Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid, £20.2m); Javier Mascherano (West Ham United, £18.6m); Ryan Babel (Ajax, £11.5m); Lucas Leiva (Gremio, £6m); Yossi Benayoun (West Ham United, £5m); Alvaro Arbeloa (Deportivo La Coruna, £2.6m); S Leto (Lanus, £1.85m); Mikel San Jose (Athletic Bilbao, £270,000); Krisztian Nemeth (MTK, £100,000); Dani Pacheco (Barcelona, £100,000); Alexander Kacaniklic (Helsingborgs, £75,000); Andriy Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen, free); Emiliano Insua (Boca Juniors, free); Charles Itandje (Lens, free); Damien Plessis (Lyons, free); Mikail Alexandrov (CSKA Sofia, free); Jordy Brouwer (Ajax, free); Gerardo Bruna (Real Madrid, free); Ryan Crowther (Stockport County, free); Francisco Manuel Duran (Malaga, free); Ronald Huth (Tacuary FC, free); Gary Mackay Steven (Ross County, free); Nikolay Mihaylov (Levski Sofia, free); Marvin Pourie (Borussia Dortmund, free); Andras Simon (MTK Hungaria, free); Danielle Padelli (Sampdoria, loan).

OUT (18)

Craig Bellamy (West Ham United, £7.5m); Djibril Cisse (Marseille, £6m); Mark Gonzalez (Real Betis, £4.2m); Luis Garcia (Atletico Madrid, £4m); Florent Sinama-Pongolle (Recreativo Huelva, £2.7m); Stephen Warnock (Blackburn Rovers, £1.5m); Darren Potter (Wolverhampton Wanderers, £250,000); Daniel O’Donnell (Crewe Alexandra, £100,000); Salif Diao (Stoke City, free); Jerzy Dudek (Real Madrid, free); Robbie Fowler (Cardiff City, free); Gabriel Paletta (Boca Juniors, free); Boudewijn Zenden (Marseille, free); David Mannix (Ham-Kam, free); Jay Smith (Stockport County, free); Francisco Manuel Duran (released); Dave Roberts (released); Daniele Padelli (Sampdoria, end of loan).

Spent £66.295m; recouped £26.25; net spend £40.045m

2008

IN (14)

Robbie Keane (Tottenham Hotspur, £20.3m); Albert Riera (Espanyol, £8m); Andrea Dossena (Udinese, £7m); Martin Skrtel (Zenit St Petersburg, £6.5m); Diego Cavalieri (Palmeiras, £3.5m); David Ngog (Paris St Germain, £1.5m); Alex Cooper (Ross County, £100,000); Philipp Degen (Borussia Dortmund, free); Lauri Dalla Valle (Jippo, free); Vitor Flora (Botafogo, free); Peter Gulacsi (MTK Hungaria, free); Emmanuel Mendy (Murcia Deportivo, free); Nikola Saric (Herfolge, free); Vincent Lucas Weijl (AZ Alkmaar, free).

OUT (15)

Peter Crouch (Portsmouth, £11m); Mohammed Sissoko (Juventus, £8.2m); John Arne Riise (AS Roma, £3.98m); Scott Carson (West Bromwich Albion, £3.75m); Danny Guthrie (Newcastle United, £2.5m); Steve Finnan (Espanyol, free); Harry Kewell (Galatasaray, free); Anthony Le Tallec (Le Mans, free); Besian Idrazaj (Wacker Tirol, free); Lee Peltier (Yeovil Town, free); San Jose Dominguez (released); Craig Lindfield (released); Ray Putterill (released); Miki Roque (released); James Smith (released).

Spent £46.9m; recouped £29.43m; net spend £17.47m

2009

IN (1)

Victor Palsson (Aarhus GF, £384,000)

OUT (3)

Robbie Keane (Tottenham Hotspur, £16m); Sami Hyypia (Bayer Leverkusen, free), J Hobbs (Leicester City, £150,000).

Spent £0.384m; recouped £16m; net spend (-£15.766m)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol....&page=1

by **Dundalk** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:34 pm

Did Owzat change his name again?

by **Reg** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:39 pm

Dundalk wrote:Did Owzat change his name again?

Stato's sulking.... :rasp

.... and I wrote all those from memory... :buttrock

by **bigmick** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:50 pm

Jeez Reg and you dig me out for doing long posts

. Having read through it, my conclusion is that we buy and sell too many players. And if you did do that from memory, then you have a staggering memory. I can barely remember what half the players are called these days. I was talking to someone about Louis Garcia the other day and mid conversation forgot his name. I had to think of the sangria song to jog up the old head a bit.

by **maguskwt** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:06 am

it seems to me like benitez is an accountant... net spend of 82 million over 5 years is not too bad at all...

by **Dundalk** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:12 am

Reg wrote:2007

IN (26)

Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid, £20.2m); Javier Mascherano (West Ham United, £18.6m); Ryan Babel (Ajax, £11.5m); Lucas Leiva (Gremio, £6m); Yossi Benayoun (West Ham United, £5m); Alvaro Arbeloa (Deportivo La Coruna, £2.6m); S Leto (Lanus, £1.85m); Mikel San Jose (Athletic Bilbao, £270,000); Krisztian Nemeth (MTK, £100,000); Dani Pacheco (Barcelona, £100,000); Alexander Kacaniklic (Helsingborgs, £75,000); Andriy Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen, free); Emiliano Insua (Boca Juniors, free); Charles Itandje (Lens, free); Damien Plessis (Lyons, free); Mikail Alexandrov (CSKA Sofia, free); Jordy Brouwer (Ajax, free); Gerardo Bruna (Real Madrid, free); Ryan Crowther (Stockport County, free); Francisco Manuel Duran (Malaga, free); Ronald Huth (Tacuary FC, free); Gary Mackay Steven (Ross County, free); Nikolay Mihaylov (Levski Sofia, free); Marvin Pourie (Borussia Dortmund, free); Andras Simon (MTK Hungaria, free); Danielle Padelli (Sampdoria, loan).

I suppose that wasnt a bad years buying from Rafa

by **aCe'** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:32 am

Sorry mate but you seem to have got the numbers wrong...

# 04-09 Purchased Sold Nett Per Season

1 Chelsea £248,450,000 £117,300,000 £131,150,000 £26,230,000
2 ManCity £171,020,000 £49,900,000 £121,120,000 £24,224,000
3 Liverpl £212,490,000 £102,030,000 £110,460,000 £22,092,000
4 Totn'm £235,500,000 £137,250,000 £98,250,000 £19,650,000
5 ManUtd £169,450,000 £76,050,000 £93,400,000 £18,680,000
12 Arsenal £102,050,000 £81,720,000 £20,330,000 £4,066,000

Season 08/09
Purchased Fee Sold Fee Net Total

Philipp Degen Free Anthony Le Tallec Undisclosed
Andrea Dossena £7,000,000 Harry Kewell Free
Diego Cavalieri £3,500,000 Peter Crouch £10,000,000
Robbie Keane £20,300,000[1] Danny Gutherie £2,500,000
Vitor Flora Signed John Arne Riise £4,000,000
Alberto Riera £8,000,000 Scott Carson £3,250,000
David Ngog £1,500,000 Steve Finnan £1,000,000
Robbie Keane £15,000,000

Total £40,300,000 £35,750,000 £4,550,000

Season 07/08
Javier Mascherano £17,100,000 --- Lee Peltier Signed
Martin Skrtel £6,000,000 --- Mohamed Sissoko £8,200,000
Damien Plessis Signed --- Gabriel Paletta Signed
Emiliano Insua £1,300,000 --- Robbie Fowler Free
Ryan Babel £11,500,000 --- Jerzy Dudek Free
Yossi Benayoun £5,000,000 --- Mark Gonzalez £4,200,000
Sebastian Leto £1,850,000 --- Craig Bellamy £7,500,000
Fernando Torres £26,500,000[2] --- Djibril Cisse £6,000,000
Charles-Hubert Itandje Signed --- Boudewijn Zenden Free
Andrei Voronin Free --- Luis Garcia £4,000,000
Total £69,250,000 £29,900,000 £39,350,000

Season 06/07
Lucas Pezzini Leiva £6,000,000 --- Danny O'Donnell £100,000
Francisco Manuel Duran Signed --- Florent Sinama Pongolle £2,700,000
Javier Mascherano £1,500,000 --- Salif Diao Free
Alvaro Arbeloa £2,600,000 --- Stephen Warnock £1,500,000
Nabil El Zhar £200,000 Darren Potter £250,000
Dirk Kuyt £9,000,000 David Mannix Signed
Jermaine Pennant £6,700,000 Chris Kirkland £3,000,000
Fabiano Aurelio Free Jan Kromkamp £1,500,000
Gabriel Paletta £2,000,000 Neil Mellor £250,000
Djimi Traore £2,000,000
Antonio Barragan £680,000
Robbie Foy Free
Carl Medjani Signed
Dietmar Hamann £400,000
Ramon Calliste Free
David Raven Free
Total £28,000,000 £12,380,000 £15,620,000

Season 05/06
Craig Bellamy £6,000,000 Calum Woods Signed
Robbie Fowler Free Bruno Cheyrou Signed
Daniel Agger £5,800,000 Zak Whitbread Free
David Martin Signed Conal Platt Free
Nabil El Zhar signed Fernando Morientes £3,000,000
Jan Kromkamp Swap John Welsh Swap
Paul Anderson Signed Josemi Swap
Jack Hobbs Signed Mark Smyth Free
Godwin Antwi Signed Paul Harrison Free
Peter Crouch £7,000,000 Milan Baros £6,500,000
Mohamed Sissoko £5,600,000 Ritchie Partridge Signed
Antonio Barragan £240,000 Antonio Nunez Signed
Boudewijn Zenden Free Gregory Vignal Free
Mark Gonzalez £4,500,000 Jon Otsemobor Free
Jose Reina £6,000,000 Mauricio Pellegrino Free
Total £35,140,000 £9,500,000 £25,640,000

Season 04/05
Scott Carson £1,000,000 El Hadji Diouf £4,000,000
Fernando Morientes £6,300,000 Vladimir Smicer Free
Mauricio Pellegrino Free Stephane Henchoz Free
Antonio Nunez Swap Chris Butler Free
Xabi Alonso £10,500,000 Michael Owen £8,000,000
Luis Garcia £6,000,000 Danny Murphy £2,500,000
Josemi £2,000,000 Markus Babbel Free
Djibril Cisse £14,000,000
Total £39,800,000 £14,500,000 £25,300,000

Sorry about the bottom part cant be fcked fixing it it takes forever.. but heres the link if you wanna check...

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/

by **aCe'** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:35 am

poof goes the money argument... we wasted the money buying shhitty players (in general, few exceptions)... now we need to make things right... again, i expect us to have atleast 20-30mill to spend without having to sell anyone, but if we'r gonna spend 18.5mill to bring in Johnson then we might aswell donate the money to charity... No rick parry to blame this year mind you so it should be interesting

by **Owzat** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:25 am

aCe' wrote:poof goes the money argument... we wasted the money buying shhitty players (in general, few exceptions)... now we need to make things right... again, i expect us to have atleast 20-30mill to spend without having to sell anyone, but if we'r gonna spend 18.5mill to bring in Johnson then we might aswell donate the money to charity... No rick parry to blame this year mind you so it should be interesting

I think buyig "shhitty players" cost us time rather than money as such. It's all very nice someone posting the transfers as a list, as if it hasn't been done before, tells us anything we don't already know, and all it tends to do is get the net vs gross spending debate going, but the reality is this - we amassed 82 points in 2005/06, not until 2008/09 did we manage to IMPROVE on that. Three seasons to improve by four points, if we hadn't bought and sold so many "shhitty players", wasted £11.5m on Babel, £20.3m on Keane etc, maybe if we'd let Degen, Itandje, Voronin and cheap/free players like that go elsewhere or simply not buy them, we'd have spent the money on a better set of players and have won the league by now.

You have to wonder if Rafa doesn't favour quantity over quality. We spent £40m give or take last summer on six players, Keane was sold next available window and even Riera was fading as first choice so only one of the six made a real and lasting impact. Only time will tell, but I'm betting we will be at best pleased rather than excited and expectant when our summer signings arrive.

by **Lando_Griffin** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:48 am

Let's have a look at Fergie's spending record from the day he took over at the scum, shall we?

Four foot snake - it's tiresome.

by **Owzat** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:53 am

Lando_Griffin wrote:Let's have a look at Fergie's spending record from the day he took over at the scum, shall we?

Four foot snake - it's tiresome.

Couldn't agree more, been done to death

by **Ciggy** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:22 am

So since Rafa has arrive total spent 80 million, RM have just spent that on one player.

So it puts things in perspective and puts to bed all that sh!te that Rafa has spent 1 billion pounds since he arrived..

by **tubby** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:01 am

Ciggy wrote:So since Rafa has arrive total spent 80 million, RM have just spent that on one player.

So it puts things in perspective and puts to bed all that sh!te that Rafa has spent 1 billion pounds since he arrived..

And I hope this is the last we hear of this notion as well im sick of people getting on Rafas back saying he has spent this and that.

by **DrPepe** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:21 am

bavlondon wrote:
Ciggy wrote:So since Rafa has arrive total spent 80 million, RM have just spent that on one player.

So it puts things in perspective and puts to bed all that sh!te that Rafa has spent 1 billion pounds since he arrived..

And I hope this is the last we hear of this notion as well im sick of people getting on Rafas back saying he has spent this and that.

80m NET

how does ORNs NET look now that he just sold CRonaldo for that price? :upside:

by **heimdall** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:23 am

bavlondon wrote:
Ciggy wrote:So since Rafa has arrive total spent 80 million, RM have just spent that on one player.

So it puts things in perspective and puts to bed all that sh!te that Rafa has spent 1 billion pounds since he arrived..

And I hope this is the last we hear of this notion as well im sick of people getting on Rafas back saying he has spent this and that.

Rafa has bought a lot of :censored:

players but give him his dues, he's also made a few brilliant signings, I just hope that this transfer season we go for quality instead of quantity, then we can make that final push and reclaim the top spot in total league championships. :buttrock

As said I will wait till the end of this transfer period before passign judgement and as we haven't signed anyone of note yet I have nothing to get my teeth into anyway.

2005 was a fecking shocking year for transfers though. :no

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