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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Surely never, if one of yuor pupils spoke like that!
lilys
Rodow1-slight difference :)
See if wee Alex gets his divorce from big bad England do ya think he’ll start a repatriation program to encourage ‘the blood of our blood’ to their ancestral home after all they are family wee Alex has said so. Or will the Ulster Scots thoroughly pissed off that the Fatherland has sold the jersey and broken the glorious union start referring to themselves as Ulster British in protest.
big nan
22:03 on 4 February, 2014
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What type of Olive oil do you fry your food in?
The exiled Tim
Another also ran, but that’s just my opinion, another key board smart arse, any way, I am not an attention seeker, so time I left, to all the ones I love ;), to the rest GFY and to lurking Huns you GFYS as well. ;)
Malorbhoy
21:44 on
It was their son Euan that was on the bar that night. He took over a few years ago.
I have drank in the Ashton on a number of occasions, it’s not my local though, an I never really had any issues. It has always been known to be frequented by more bluenoses than tims, at one time alot of Police and CID used to drink in it but again there was never any outward signs of discrimination or sectarianism.
Can’t remember if I posted this the other night but their was a guy in with a Scotland rugby top and that wasn’t an issue, only my green top with the shamrock.
well thats the Underground going down the Tube….I am going to have the 2 days off as well then ….only fair ….braw
should be ‘ to return to their ancestral homes’
Too much fine Connemara whiskEy consumed by Frankie bhoy tonight.
The Flag drapers prefer the union – keep up folks.
You’re vote is the beginning of a journey not its end.
And it’s time to be active not passive – perceiving the bogie men all across Scotland.
I consider myself very well travelled in our country. I love the remoteness of our country.
Hitched its length and breadth as a youth with a head full of Kerouac.
Wild camped it. Climbed it. Tramped it, Hobbled it.
Posh hotels, poor hotels. Farmer’s outhouses as part of their charity. Self catering cottages all up and down the west coast.
Playing music has had me all over the place at the mercy of people’s hospitality and it has been unconditional. Rewarding and heart warming.
I can only attest to being a ‘victim’ of sectarianism when I stayed in Fife (Kirkcaldy to be exact) but the region was/is rife with it – this has as much a root in mining strikes as anything as definite as religion.
That 12 months and basically the rest of my life in my home region lanarkshire and greater Glasgow – had more fears heading to Hampden as a lad and getting off the train at Rutherglen then being in Glasgow proper. Grown men spitting on children.
But that? That my friends is not Scotland. Taxi drivers trying to stop people talking Gaelic is not Scotland – how long would that last up North????? The languages were referred to by my Gaelic speaking cousin in Dublin many years ago as ‘close sisters’.
If we vote yes – the job isn’t done – it’s starting – and then we get to earn the right to design our mandate to our politicians.
Then we start defining our Scotland.
U
Ole Uncle Fester in the Fulham dugout.
Big Nan
That’s a bit rich coming from you.
I thought politics and religion was your metier.
Though not necessarily in that order!
eddieinkirkmichael
We are a minority Eddie, anything can be changed by the state.
We have watched a law created that targets young Tims. That law is having to be “challenged in court” mate.
Judge them by their actions not their words.
Big nan,
just watched rerun of Rick Stein in India in search of the perfect curry. Bloody Hank Marvin now.
eddieinkirkmichael
You do realise the US constitution allowed slavery to flourish for 77 years and other injustices to flourish for much longer
hun skelper
22:06 on 4 February, 2014
big nan
22:03 on 4 February, 2014
What’s your views on gay marriage ?
Haha then we can talk about the Huns and then we can finally talk about the hoops ok :-) HH in that order
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I don’t have a problem with it at all. Live and let live says I.
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Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles
Wife buys that Bertolli Extra Virgin, but I read that olive oil is not for frying and loses it’s properties when heated. The article reckons that rape seed, or sun flower was best for frying at high temp.
When I can I like to go to Champany Inn and have a nice steak with chips fried in beef dripping. Canny whack that.
SU score at the bore fest!
Not going to pens now! 1-0 SHU
http://lockerdome.com/footyjokes/6169472553726017/6330321863968276
Zlatan
1-0 sheff united, last minute of extra time
Blades score . 1 minute of extra time to go
The blades score…………no not the gay marraige debate
Fulham 0 Sheff Utd 1
Tfft
TD
Aye it’s your opinion.
I was actually trying to communicate, but you are so far up the boards erse you obviously didn’t hear me.
As for being an attention seeker, I decided against calling you one, but since you brought it up, you really should have a look at some of your posts, you might just be surprised, not.
HH
stevie67
22:12 on 4 February, 2014
Big nan,
just watched rerun of Rick Stein in India in search of the perfect curry. Bloody Hank Marvin now.
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Sailed with the Clan Line and they carried good curry powder, but the Indian/Pakistani crew made their own. Sat on their hunkers with a mortar and pestle and pounded up all the seeds. They would catch beautiful fresh fish and leave it out in the sun until it was like wood.
But when they made a curry for themselves if we got a taste it was different class from the powder out of the tin. They would cook one for us at special holy days. Great stuff.
Big Nan
I’m now ravenous you old fiend you!!!
HH jamesgang
hehehehehe braw is on the money again ….Sheffield score ….braw …..
jamesgang H. H. and good night to all.
Steinreignedsupreme. You may well be right… But my view is their principal motives are negative – anti us rather than pro anything
I just dont get it, Everyone in a frenzy, for years and years,everyone on here at one point has sung songs of freedom, Irish, South African, whatever, why in the name of god are we scared to take a leap, and go for it.
Or we just like to be cozy up with England!
lilys
eddieinkirkmichael
21:51 on 4 February, 2014
thedonegaldancer
21:38 onYou left out——
based on nothing more than a feeling in my stomach!While I have never supported the SNP, I have heard them on several occasions come to the defense of Catholic schools.The one thing which will erode the catholic identify over time is actually the apathy which exsists towards a church which appears to be stuck in the middle ages and hasn’t evolved to adapt to the modern world.I will conseed that our new Pope has said some interesting things and he may try and lead the church away from it’s extremely conservative recent past.
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Indeed a very interesting questionnaire was available at Catholic Churches in December, which in my opinion was designed for a massive shift on how the Catholic Church will progress, in respect of marriage, divorce contraception etc
A long time coming
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
Big Nan,
Steak and chips, lubbly jubbly
cannot believe the amount of posters on this blog are not pro independence
celtic fans siding with rangers neandarthals, the orange orders, tories and other pro brit types
its amazing
independence, its taking a chance but the future is there to be written by all including 1st generation onwards irish celtic fans
You can’t beat a big nan with a curry
Big Nan,
Sounds good, but fish in a curry just doesn’t do it for me. Has to be lamb. However, fresh fish, local produce, native cooking on the other hand . . .
when in Rome, or the Indian Ocean
West O Ireland
One hundred per cent
lilys
Olive Oil.
There are two OO factories close to me, one only does the virgin pressing, the ohter the heat treated stuff, the virgin plant sells 80% of the oil to Italy, who sell it as the best Italian virgin oil.
They are trying to bring in a law in europe that all OO has to state where it comes from, it is being met with fierce oppo from Italy by all accounts.
I managed 8 lts of oil from my tree this year, it;s drinkable, but never cook with it. that;s as bad as putting cola in malt whiskey >}
HH
some food to save you lot from pawing at each other
http://www.abacbarcelona.com/index.php?s=restaurante&lang=en&id=cocina_creatividad_tradicion
BIG-CUP-WINNERS 22:11 on read ulysses mcghee is praying for Oscar 22:11 on , I think he says perfectly what some of us believe. No one is saying it’ll be easy but 300 years of union have got us where we are today.
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
22:12 on
I do and you are not about to compere the treatment of african Americans with the Irish Catholics in Scotland are you? The whole world has moved on , even in the last 10 years or so. The advent of the internet and social media are opening up the world. Mankind is moving forward, albeit with some resistance from some quarters.
We have an opportunity to effect real change for our children’s future’s, I for 1 am prepared to take the chance.