World Soccer Magazine published a fascinating table at the bottom of an article on the respective financial might of Chelsea and Manchester City yesterday, detailing player spend and sales for current English Premier League clubs over the last 10 seasons.
Liverpool have an average net spend of £18.1m as they chase former glories while Manchester United, who stole Liverpool’s place at the top of the English pile, had only a marginally higher net spend of £18.6m.
Fifth on the list is Aston Villa, largely on the back of an attempt to take over the world during Martin O’Neill’s reign, spending a net average of £11.1m.
Most fascinating of all is that 11 of the 20 have a net average spend of less than £4m per season. They spend big, but apart from the odd team spending some foreign country’s mineral wealth, they also sell big.
Bottom of the table of net biggest spenders in Everton, who sold £7.8m of talent more than they bought during the period. Newcastle United are also in a surplus, thanks in part to their recently departed director of football, Joe Kinnear, who completed his service without spending a penny.
Crystal Palace clearly have an eye for a bargain. They successfully negotiated a return to the Premier League, and then bought Joe Ledley as his Celtic contract ran down, with an average net spend of £722k.
The Silk from a Sow’s Ear prize has to go to Arsenal. The last decade has not been generous to Arsenal, however, their average net spend is only £1.5m per season having sold £277m worth of talent. Their business model is not right, i.e. they have not been able to compete with those who don’t seem to care if they break even, but they, more than any other club in Europe*, are primed for the Financial Fair Play era.
*apart from Celtic, of course.
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I know the answer btw
SFTB
Not long finished reading Zlatan’s autobiography.
An astonishingly honest account of his life and career, sparing no one, not even himself, from praise or criticism.
Idolises Henrik.
A must read for all football fans.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
20:40 on
4 February, 2014
Re the vote and what you are voting for. Don’t listen to politicians, the media or the activists on her trying to coax and cajole.
Look at the evidence of what Salmond and his crew have done with a smidgeon of power.
Persecution of young Tims, lauding bigots, heavy handed policing and abuse of power.
Do we seriously wish to vote for such peril ?
The only reason SNP have so much power in Scotland is that Labour made such an erchie of things before last election.
A Yes vote is a vote for Scotland. Not for the SNP.
A No Vote is a vote for more of the same. A Westminster well right of centre Labour Party and a Tory Party runningg shit scared of the loonies in UKIP.
jude
Neilly Mochan
Mochan
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
20:40 on
4 February, 2014
Re the vote and what you are voting for. Don’t listen to politicians, the media or the activists on her trying to coax and cajole.
Look at the evidence of what Salmond and his crew have done with a smidgeon of power.
Persecution of young Tims, lauding bigots, heavy handed policing and abuse of power.
Do we seriously wish to vote for such peril ?
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hahahahahahaha I take it your taking the mickey? my idea of peril is …Westminister…Trident for starters …not to mention the wars ….don,t mention the War …..I mentioned it once but I got away with it ….braw
“an insitution (or whatever you may call it) and”
should read
“an institution (or whatever you may call it)”
thomthethim for oscar ok
20:48 on 4 February, 2014
I know a few people who’ve recently read it. All are in agreement that it’s a fabulous read but not one of them came away with a high opinion of the guy.
Strange given that it’s an autobiography.
They will go down, and they will come back, but it’s great watching it happen, I have to thank thems for the best two Christmases I’ve ever had, HailHail, your grand children will be Tim’s , ohhhhhh I feel yer pain, lurkers, GIRUYs.
SSB Were debating how much Wallace was worth tonite. I tried to get thru to get thems value on Izzy!!
quonno
A yes vote is a vote for “Scotland” exactly what is that ? Do you know what that is ?
I do know what sectarian states do to Catholic minorities.
Tony D
Unless your name’s Lazarus the dead cannae rise again :-)
Does Bernard Ponsonby read the blog
BCW
Yipp
Evening Jimmy Quinn. What was wrong with my language? Homosexuals remain a minority despite what some people try to suggest. Most people in Britain aren’t interested in gay ‘marriage’. The progressive zealots pushed this. Some of them despise the Catholic Church, hence my mentioning them on CQN at a time when the position of Catholics in a seperate Scotland is being discussed on this forum.
67 heaven, only an idiot would try to suggest that there are not homosexuals who live good lives.
Anyway, it is very late where I am. Goodnight to all the Celts around the world.
Right am outa here, Uni mob in, HH
the long wait is over
20:45 on 4 February, 2014
Powerful……if we were all the same we would still look for something to criticise…….i have worked for the same Global Company for MANY years, and two of the most pleasant / hardworking people I have ever met in all those years were gay
The Battered Bunnet,
Here;s another one:
Voting used to be something that only men were legally allowed to do. Should we have opposed the extension of the franchise to women because it would redefine voting?
67 heaven
Exactly
We see the Catholic Church being regularly accused of hypocrisy by outspoken gays and others demanding tolerance and respect, while themselves displaying nothing of the kind to those who disagree with them and who are equally entitled to do so
Wtf is Uni mob ??
Neustadt-Braw
Like I wrote look at the evidence. What’s your conclusion ?
TSOAL
what’s he sayin?
the spirit of arthur lee
20:52 on 4 February, 2014
A mad Tim met him in Baird’s a few times HH
John O’Neil
20:53 on
4 February, 2014
Calm doon, ah put a smiley thing on it
Hard lines H T
tonydonnelly67
20:51 on 4 February, 2014
They reap what they sew, and Scotland is better for their demise…
the Financial Fair Play era……..
your a hoot Pau67
HH
I never went to Uni…. haud it yoos
wish I had
TD doesn’t mind gay people as long as they didn’t go to University.
Among all the usual political ranting, which is totally pointless btw cos you are not going to change anyone’s stance.
A couple of posts that made me laff.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
20:40 on
4 February, 2014
I’m not gay but my boyfriend is.
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
20:44 on
4 February, 2014
Sometimes, in the morning, I wake up feeling Gay.
Unfortunately, that’s not my wife’s name
Thanks >}
HH
Am setting the alarm for hetro time tomorrow just so I don’t wake up gay…:-) HH
League Cup Final, Scottish Cup Final, Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony,
Has PL announced yet that the first gay marriage will take place at Celtic Park.
It’s the in place don’t you know.
jimmyquinnsbits
20:21 on 4 February, 2014
Exactly……
Big cup winners
There was a poster on today who stated that apart from The Act the SNP had done many good things. You do know of course that the Huns also hate The Act so once again we have Tims and Huns on common ground.
I have four children including a teenager and The Act will have no effect on them whatsoever but the free further education introduced by SNP has been brilliant with 3 degrees already that under a unionist government would have led to
A debt of £65 – 70k
Peter Tatchell(read his previous thoughts about young boys), Patrick Strudwick and others show more hatred towards the Catholic Church than the stereotypical hun. These men have influence as well. I appreciate that some of their hatred stems from some unkind Christian comments directed towards their sexuality but their hatred of the Church is difficult to justify nonetheless.
Don’t doubt that the Progressives and Socialists will soon wish to remove the stigma linked to those perverts who like children. They did it in London in the 1980s. Last post from me tonight.
the comfortable collective
21:00 on 4 February, 2014
Hahahahaha
squire danaher 20:54 on 4 February, 2014
67 heaven
“We see the Catholic Church being regularly accused of hypocrisy by outspoken gays and others”
We do. It’s not hard to work out why though. The church has left itself open to that criticism.
pogmathonyahun aka laird of the smiles
20:58 on 4 February, 2014
TD doesn’t mind gay people as long as they didn’t go to University.
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Strange person, strange post, needs help.