okay.... seems like every thread at some point gets dragged out of track by talk about money spent and our owners not giving Rafa any sort of cash to spend..etc etc...
Even Rafa spoke about us being ManUtd in spending, which Ferguson denied but anyways... time to finally put this whole thing to bed and i thought we'd have it in a different thread rather than ruining other ongoing threads discussing this matter...
first off ill start with a table showing spending since 1992... this has nothing to do with Rafa before anyone starts typing their reply post now... its just to show things as they are and you make of it as you will i wont even comment on the figures below...
Just want to say, if anyone can spot any inaccuracies in the figures below just let me know and i'll change them if you make a valid point... for now the figures are as good as they come imo...
most are from http://transferleague.co.uk/ but i had to check some of the figures that didnt look right and i have to say they turned out correct.... still, if anyone knows otherwise ill check ..
1992-2010
Net Spend Purchased Sold Nett Per Season
1 Chelsea £556,690,000 £186,875,000 £369,815,000 £20,545,278
2 Man City £364,110,000 £80,553,000 £283,557,000 £15,753,167
3 Liverpool £392,615,000 £180,920,000 £217,695,000 £12,094,167
4 Man Utd £410,350,000 £275,565,000 £134,785,000 £7,488,056
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Anyways.... back to our spending under Rafa...
SPENT RECIEVED NET
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
Total £25,800,000 £14,500,000 £11,300,000
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 J
an 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 06/07
Lucas Pezzini Leiva £6,000,000 Danny O'Donnell £100,000
Francisco Manuel Dura Signed Florent Sinama Pongoll £2,700,000 J
avier 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 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 £20,500,000 Djibril Cisse £6,000,000
Charles-Hubert Itandje Signed Boudewijn Zenden Free
Andrei Voronin Free Luis Garcia £4,000,000
Total £63,250,000 £29,900,000 £39,350,00
Season 08/09
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 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
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Now for ManUtd because this seems to be the main debate...
Season 08/09
Demitar Berbatov £30,750,000 Ritchie Jones Free
Zoran Tosic £5,000,000 Chris Eagles £1,250,000
Adem Ljajic £5,000,000
Ritchie De Laet Undisclosed Michael Lea Free
Mikel Sylvestre £750,000
Louis Saha Signed
Total £40,750,000 £2,000,000 £38,750,000
Season 07/08
Manucho Signed Gerard Pique £6,000,000
Carlos Tevez £10,000,000 Kieran Lee Free
Nani £13,500,000 Phil Bardsley £2,000,000
Tomasz Kuszczak £2,500,000 Ryan Shawcross £1,000,000
Anderson £15,000,000 Adam Eckersley Free
Owen Hargreaves £17,000,000 Phil Marsh Free
Raphael De Silva £2,500,000 Gabriel Heinze £8,000,000
Fabio De Silva £2,600,000 Alan Smith £6,000,000
Rodrigo Possebon Signed Daniel Rose Signed
Giuseppe Rossi £6,700,000
Kieran Richardson £5,500,000
Total £63,100,000 £35,200,000 £27,900,000
Season 06/07
Michael Carrick £18,600,000 Tim Howard £3,000,000
David Jones £1,000,000
Liam Miller Free
Paul McShane Free
Luke Steele Signed
Ruud van Nistelrooy £10,300,000
Quinton Fortune Free
Sylvain Ebanks-Blake £200,000
Total £18,600,000 14,500,000 £4,100,000
Season 05/06
Patrice Evra £5,500,000 John Mikel Obi £12,000,000
Nemanja Vidic £7,000,000 Eddie Johnson Free
Ben Foster £1,000,000 Jonathan Spector £500,000
Ji-Sung Park £4,000,000 Tommy Lee Free
Edwin Van Der Sar £2,500,000 Phil Picken Free
Colin Heath Signed
Neil Wood Free
David Fox Free
Roy Keane Free
Kleberson £2,500,000
Phil Neville £3,500,000
Michael Stewart Signed
Paul Tierney Signed
David Bellion Undisclosed
Daniel Nardiello Free
Total £20,000,000 £18,500,000 £1,500,000
Season 04/05
Florent N'Galula £0 Steven Hogg Free
Wayne Rooney £27,000,000 Ricardo Free
Giuseppe Rossi £200,000 Roy Carroll Free
David Poole Free
Eric Djemba-Djemba £1,350,000
Bojan Djordjic Free
Diego Forlan £2,000,000
Luke Chadwick Free
Nicky Butt £2,500,000
Mark Lynch Signed
Total £27,200,000 £5,850,000 £21,350,00
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SOOOO.......
this is how the final thing looks like
Net Spend 04-10 Purchased Sold Nett Per Season
1 Manchester City £260,750,000 £49,900,000 £210,850,000 £35,141,667
2 Chelsea £266,450,000 £118,300,000 £148,150,000 £24,691,667
3 Liverpool £210,990,000 £105,280,000 £125,710,000 £20,951,667
7 Man Utd £188,650,000 £161,050,000 £27,600,000 £4,600,000
11 Arsenal £112,050,000 £114,820,000 -£2,770,000 -£461,667
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EDIT : Should probably add the 2009 because it figures in the list... going to Edit this as new transfer dealings are done to keep track of the spending......not a big difference in spending so far this summer but anyways....
LIVERPOOL
Season 09/10
Glen Johnson £18,500,000 Sami Hyypiä Free
Chris Mavinga Signed Jack Hobbs Signed
Paul Anderson £250,000
Sebastian Leto £3,000,000
Astrit Ajdarevic Free
Jermaine Pennant Free
Total £18,500,000 £3,250,000 £15,250,000
MAN UTD
Season 09/10
Antonio Valencia £16,000,000 Cristiano Ronaldo £80,000,000
Michael Owen Free Lee Martin £1,500,000
Gabriel Obertan £3,000,000 Fraizer Campbell £3,500,000
Mame Biram Diouf undisclosed Richard Eckersley Tribunal
Manucho undisclosed
Total £19,000,000 £85,000,000 -- £66,000,000