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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BIG-CUP-WINNERS
20:54 on
4 February, 2014
Neustadt-Braw
Like I wrote look at the evidence. What’s your conclusion ?
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I would conclude Scottish democracy in motion,which of course is reversible.Westminster shoite is not ,and therein lies the peril.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
20:52 on
4 February, 2014
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.
A yes vote is an enabling vote that will give the people of Scotland the right to select and get a government, Labour, -Tory or, whatever of its of its choice.
Given time to think about it, it might not be too hard to uncover sectarian states, some of a Catholic variety that are not too pleasant places for minorities.
One of the reasons that Churches in Ireland are empty is the fallout, abuse scandals etc. caused by years of the Irish State and the Catholic Church living in a no questions asked collusion where folk like Noel Browne, who wanted things like social medicine, were denounced from pulpits by bigots like Bishop McQuaid of Dublin.
John O’Neil 21:01 on 4 February, 2014
Peter Tatchell is not selective on how he stands up to. he takes a constant stance.
Vote?
I am undecided, undecided that is on who I am going to vote for in the CQteN Dream Team of the last 10 years!
Details will be coming soon.(ish)
TD
My post to you was a joke ie the Huns are deid so can’t ‘come back’ and you retort with your usual pish about ‘university types’.
Are you familiar with the term inverted snobbery?
steinreignedsupreme
21:03 on 4 February, 2014
John O’Neil 21:01 on 4 February, 2014
Peter Tatchell is not selective on how he stands up to. he takes a constant stance.
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Yep, he’s consistently anti Catholic.
Gordon J,
How about a right for those who want to marry someone of the same sex? Because people of the same sex cannot marry each other; such a union is a mere travesty. BTW I’m not in favour of banning anything (well, almost) but legislating for same-sex “marriage” is pretending that what’s completely different is equal.
‘Who’ he stands up to.
Oops, should have said ” No, because…”
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar 21:06 on 4 February, 2014
He’s constantly anti-everyone who give gays a hard time.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
21:05 on
4 February, 2014
TD
My post to you was a joke ie the Huns are deid so can’t ‘come back’ and you retort with your usual pish about ‘university types’.
Are you familiar with the term inverted snobbery?
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“am not a real welder mister!” :) braw
John O’Neil,
I consider child abuse to be a worse crime than murder. I would do away with the lot of them; to be “humane”, they could take a pill.
That post does you no credit, linking homosexuality to child abuse is tabloid mentality at its worst.
billy bhoy 05
21:01 on 4 February, 2014
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
You may rest your case Billy Bhoy 05 – excellent point. Scottish values for Scottish people
pogmathonyahun aka laird of the smiles
20:47 on 4 February, 2014
67heaven … i am neil lennon, supporting wee oscar..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
20:41 on 4 February, 2014
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In general I don’t think there is any aggression against gay people it’s just the ole CQN aggro-debate stylee kicking in as per usual.
Who are you looking at!?
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Absolutely……..the prejudices nowadays against all minorities are nowhere near as bad as they used to be, and that’s to the good
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
21:05 on 4 February, 2014
TD
My post to you was a joke ie the Huns are deid so can’t ‘come back’ and you retort with your usual pish about ‘university types’.
Are you familiar with the term inverted snobbery?
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No! Is it a Hamilton thing?
John O’Neil
Re Tatchell. Dont know about his comments re young boys. But I am pretty sure he was baptised a Catholic.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
ffs call me gerry
get a grip and stop living in the middle ages
the rubbish you and others on here are peddling will only increase discrimination and intimidation of the gay minority in scotland
And as celtic fans we know all about discrimination and intimidation through out our clubs long history
steinreignedsupreme
21:09 on 4 February, 2014
Then why do you only hear him when his vitriol is directed at the Catholic Church?
steinreignedsupreme
21:01 on 4 February, 2014
I don’t disagree
My issue is with those who condemn the church for hypocrisy while demanding respect and tolerance – while themselves displaying hypocrisy by being disrespectful and intolerant of people who have a perfect right to disagree with them.
The attitude of Patrick Harvie around the Keith O’Brien episode was a typical example
Ross Kemp ” Derry is UKs first City of Culture….”?
I must admit to not having a vote, and for that I am thankful, but one thing politics has taught me over the years is this…………..
The more you try and impose your beliefs onto others, the more you entrench them against you.
Just saying like >}
HH
TD
Google it, consider it a broadening of your development without the need for tertiary education.
quonno
21:03
You seem to be indulging in whataboutery. Grasp the tenant of my words……I don’t trust Salmond and his crew based on their actions, I referred to it as the evidence.
Neustadt-Braw. Don’t know if you are being deliberately obtuse ? The evidence is teh SNP have introduced ridiculous, arbitrary and discriminatory laws aimed at criminalising Tims. Evidence is fact based.
Billy Bhoy 05 Yeah good stuff, no doubt. But I genuinely fear for our safety in this backwater.
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
20:54 on 4 February, 2014
Wtf is Uni mob ??
Anyone with an opinion that doesn’t happen to support PL and board unconditionally.
tonydonnelly67
21:02 on 4 February, 2014
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.
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He does have a point though as you appear to have issues with young men who go to Uni but you never have displayed any homophobic tendancies in your posts.
TET
Exactly
All these roasters trying to convince folk with endless rhetoric …give you a sore head
TD, nobody on here stranger than you mate, and, I know, I can meet you in the Brazen Head anytime I like. Get a life or more importantly get a sense of humour.
pogmathonyahun aka laird of the smiles
20:36 on 4 February, 2014
The Protestant Church see marriage in the same context as any other Church….they may not call it what we do, a sacrament, but it is every bit as ‘godly’…
!!Bada Bing!!
21:12 on
4 February, 2014
Ross Kemp ” Derry is UKs first City of Culture….”?
It was the first City given it, it is correct
TET,
you’re becoming the Buddha on the mountain with all that wisdom ;)
Re tonights topic of conversation Whats the odds on fulhan sub scoring.deshager (dejagah). Well thats how the clown on itv4 pronounced it.
a dire game at Craven Cottage ….Division 1 Sheffield Utd are at least trying …would tip an upset ….EPL millions doon the pan again …..braw …
I liked Uni so much I went twice!
StillAdaftieThoCSC
HH jamesgang
Can anyone give me a wee step for a hint for anything Jesus said in the four recognised Gospels in relation to homosexuals or homosexuality?
I know he was scathing on many, many, many occasions on the behaviour of bankers, money lenders and the like. (Many, many ,many times – not just that time he went a bit radge in the temple and went pure mad mental with the money lender types). Jesus did not have a lot of time for what we would call, in the modern world, bankers.
But homosexuals. Well, pardon my ignorance, but when it came to homosexuals, Jesus seemed to say “Gies peace, I’ve got mair important things to worry about than that”.
[P.S. I know St. Paul’s position (so to speak) when it comes to homosexuals, but it the number one Jesus man’s views I’m interested in].
Which to my untrained eye seems to suggest that it wasn’t really an issue for him.
Was Glesga not City of Culture years ago mate?
PFayr
I never scroll by any post, or poster, but have started to re political ones, the sore head is putting it mildly.
HH
Anyway,
much as I support the equality an all that
I fail to understand how you wouldn’t
http://how-lovely.org/scarlett-johansson/
steinreignedsupreme
21:09 on 4 February, 2014Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar 21:06 on 4 February, 2014He’s constantly anti-everyone who give gays a hard time.
UpPompeicsc
Invercelt,
Two people of the same sex can now marry. That’s the law of the land.