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Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:28 amby akumaface
Hypia hands down. Really really top class CB. Next maybe Agger as he had show tones of potential. Next in line maybe Reina. Althought he is definitely not cheap but he had proven he is one of the best keeper in the EPL. I think his ball distribution must be among the best if not the best in the world. Also,
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:04 amby Reinas No.1 Fan
Its been a while since we snapped up an unknown for less that £500,000 that has turned out to be a wonder kid.
discounting Owen, Carra and Gerrard of course
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:48 amby mungi
gotta be hypia. when we first got him i was think WTF? but he has turned into one of the greats. 5.8 mill for agger is a bargain as well
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:30 amby babu
I posted this in the premiership forum, but this spreadsheet is related to this thread:
Club(s) Net Spending since 1992
*Note: this is not my work, but a taken from a Manchester United Forum
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:52 amby Leonmc0708
ivor_the_injun wrote:Leonmc0708 wrote:Effes wrote:I though Barnes was very cheap, think he was £900K, which in 1987 was
still very cheap.
Dalglish was a snip at £440,000 also.
Sure that was a record at the time.
Using the retail price index, £440,000 in 1977 is the equivalent of £1,888,932.78 now.
By that same token, the £110k we paid for Hansen works out as £472,233.20.
Paisley's tenner signing on fee is the real eye-opener though. That works out as £426.08 in today's money. Cheap at a million times the price. 
No offence but thats boll.ocks when applied to football transfers.
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:05 amby babu
Leonmc0708 wrote:No offence but thats boll.ocks when applied to football transfers.
It definitely cannot be applied to ticket prices either.
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:39 amby Big Niall
Football inflation isn't the same as inflation, way higher probably 30% per year.
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:42 pmby Toffeehater
Totally agree that with some of u that mentioned alonso and sami hypia ... Alonso cost less is much better then anderson , from what he has shown so far .. Hypia in his prime was as good as carra , campbell and the pr!ck terry
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Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:09 pmby Effes
Arbeloa could turn out to be a good buy too,maybe tooearly to say
but he has eased into the team and was only £2.6M, I think.
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Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:35 pmby Well Red
Bill Shankley. Whatever his initial wage was, it was our greatest ever purchase 
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Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:46 pmby Thingy
Maybe a bit premature to say, but Arbeloa was only a couple of million was he not? If he carries on improving then it would be a great bargain.
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Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:25 pmby 7_Kewell
has to be Hypia for 2.7 million...i think. It would have been Babbel (free) was it not for his illness.
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Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:24 pmby Flepent
Hyypia bargin 
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Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:37 pmby Sean
Don't know what we paid Northampton to get Phil Neal but it was proably peanuts and the guy went on to help us win four european cups, scoring in two finals.
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Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:53 pmby Ade
Just looking at that list someone put up, of each manager's best buy, Rob Jones for £300,000 - absolute steal. Injuries deprived us of possibly our best ever right back, so credit to Souness for picking him up.
What about Ronnie Whelan from Home Farm - for £35,000. Unbelievable value.
And yet another great Bob Paisley quote about signing Kenny from Celtic. 