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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Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
11:23 on
5 February, 2014
bognorbhoy oscar in my thoughts/ support the dam 5/we are all neil lennon
11:21 on 5 February, 2014
onesie doh!
The home or away onesie?
go for the home onesie
summa of sammi….
11:16 on 5 February, 2014
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‘I’m the Only Fenian in the Village’..
Summa
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Aye….. Only ‘cos I moved to Sydney ;-)
HH
JohnnyClash
Tartan lederhosen should just about cover it.
Braw as someone else might say .
bognorbhoy oscar in my thoughts/ support the dam 5/we are all neil lennon
11:16 on
5 February, 2014
Big game coming up on saturday .
Does it count towards the clean sheet record,
or is it only a league record ?
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Was thinking that myself, but imagine the cup game will count towards it. Can`t see the clean sheet record holding out much longer, hardest test will be this Saturday.
Can’t believe it. I’ve just agreed with oor Kevjungle.
I must be off oot!
Monaghan1900
“I reckon we should do a Manchester at our first home game back in the top tier.”
Imagine planning to wreck your home city :))))
Monaghan1900, 11:03
Fine work there. The Radio Clyde one especially
We just set a record for league game clean sheets and that’s the world record we are chasing I believe
PMSL at these sevcofuds on FF.
“Radio Clyde is in our home town”.
Where would that be? Kilwinning? Larkhall?
…and of course the biggest rangers legned of them all, Craighy Bhoy White as the captain, with sevco founding father Charlie Bhoy Green as the vice captain….
On Phils article
What kind of dodgy people at sevco do you think would consider off shore payments to Craigy boy:)) to make him go away.
or would it be easier to ask who wouldn’t .
Martim1980
I don’t consider telling how it as bullying. It’s so bloody obvious if you vote against Independence you are by definition a Unionist and by the same token a British Nationalist.
For years myself and my family have had to put up with Tory governments because of Scots voting for unionist parties.
I don’t hear any apologies from those voters for the hardship the most vulnerable – our potentially 8th richest country in the planet – have suffered or the illegal wars that have taken the lives of our children.
If you are happy with that then that is your choice but please don’t preach to me about it.
If you felt I was attempting to bully you I will apologise for that, but I can assure you that was not my intention.
Some suggestion on Clyde last night that Sevco should arrange a beamback of the Ramsden Cup final to ibrox.
Words fail me.
BobbyRussell
11:28 on
5 February, 2014
bognorbhoy oscar in my thoughts/ support the dam 5/we are all neil lennon
11:16 on
5 February, 2014
Big game coming up on saturday .
Does it count towards the clean sheet record,
or is it only a league record ?
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Was thinking that myself, but imagine the cup game will count towards it. Can`t see the clean sheet record holding out much longer, hardest test will be this Saturday.
The cup game on Saturday does not count in the Clean sheet record. It is league games only.
Dont concede against St Johnstone and the first 31mins against Hearts and Celtic have broke the Scottish record
BobbyRussell
Was thinking that myself, but imagine the cup game will count towards it. Can`t see the clean sheet record holding out much longer, hardest test will be this Saturday
should be a tough test saturday. The longer it goes on , teams will be more determined to break it .
celticlegends
cheers
JohnnyClash 11:24 on 5 February, 2014
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream @ 11.18
“CQTEN is going to be gay pride meets Nuremberg rally meets Thingummyjig. Help needed as what to wear.”
Just dress up as a New Romantic.
JohnnyClash
mullions and mullions would turn up (not)
Billy Bhoy 05
Enough of your nonsense, aren’t the SNP responsible for harassment of Celtic fans.
I say they are, so stop with all your second hand rhetorical nonsense.
I know bigots by their actions, and nothing you can say will ever influence me.
Ive said to you before to check out the sectarian roots of the SNP, I suggest you do so.
Unionism or Sectarian Nationalism I oppose…..read your history, and spare us your political clap trap.
HH
Hun ‘living legneds’ wanted!
Roll up, roll up…
Collect your bucket and get out there. There are 500 million of us ready to pledge our hard-earned benefits.
HH!!
Billy Bhoy 05
You still campaigning ?
I’ll repeat my mantra, which you still haven’t answered. Will Tims be safe in this country ? Monaghan’s post reveals the sort of thinking held by many Scots. Billy Wolfe had those thoughts too remember ? His modern day colleagues wasted no time in creating ridiculous laws to take Mr Wolfe’s vision forward.
You mention Republican again today. Care to define a republic ?
Scotland’s Future – Your guide to and Independant Scotland White Paper
You can order a copy of this here.
https://scotgov.theapsgroupinscotland.com/
I also started off by having a look at Business for Scotland lectures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCWZemVMKJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W8cKHcZn60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDpZ_wS7CW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg70QdhZ1Uw
for a less serious insight have a wee search on youtube for ‘Glasgow Rangers fans view of Independence’.
I have went a wee bitty further with my research as before I made a decision I wanted that decision to be informed as possible. I have searched for a factual rebute of the Business for Scotland figures and those figueres published in the white paper butr to no avail. I have emailed Better Together campaigners requesting a factual analysis and rebutal of the Business for Scotland and white paper facts and figures but alas to no avail. All I can find is scaremongering and sound bite politics.
I am at this moment in time swayed by the ‘Yes’ campaign. I am however until September open to changing my mind if the facts and figures state that Scotland will be better of as part of a Loyalist Union :-).
It is for each person to make as informed a decision as they can on how they should use their vote.
And if someone can point me in the direction of some firm analysis and rebutal of the Yes campaigns facts and figures I would be grateful.
I am certainly not going to make a decision on wich way i vote based on which team I support or which school I do or do not send my child to.
Billy Bhoy 05, jsut a wee point. You cannot force people to have the same view as you. You obviously feel strongly about how you are going to vote but if I was swithering I know for sure that your methods of persuasion would just turn me off the debate. Just saying likesy.
On another point – everyone should make sure that they are registered to vote. I know I know I know but apparently there are up to 1 million voters still not registered to vote and unaware of this.
MWD
It Depends on Saturday what Aberdeen turn up on there day they are no doubt the second best team in Scotland however,they can fall apart witness Hearts winning at Pittodrie.If we get an early goal that will shake them and I think we will win comfortably if Aberdeen can stop us scoring the longer the game goes on they will fancy there chances. H.H.
Billy Bhoy 05, as I said numerous times I’m not campaigning. It’s now clear, by your posts, what your position is and the lengths you’ll go to push them. If you read back your posts I think you’d have to agree that they were bullish in style. I, in no way felt bullied but refuse to be insulted in such a manner, which I’m sure you can understand. I still think there are better ways to achieve your goal ;-)
Starry Plough
LOL.
With traditions like those who could argue?
BIG CUP WINNERS
that arguement is rediculous. Will TIMS be safe in this country?
FFS! Neil Lennon was sent bombs, threats and been attacked numerous times under Westminster Control.
Neil Lennon attacker found not guilty whilst living under the union Flag.
Celtic Fans have been attacked and murdered up and down the country under Westminster control.
Do you seriously believe we are safe right now?
MWD
Some light reading to wile away the hours while we wait for Sevco developments.
Part two after lunch
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How Soccer Explains the World, Franklin Foer C2 Pornography of Sects, IV.
With Dummy’s Guinness-stained gray sweatshirt and blue jeans, he looks undeniably like a soccer fan, Donald Findlay does not. He wears a three-piece suit with pin striped pants and a navy jacket constructed from lush Saville Row cloth. Across his vest, a gold pocket watch chain holds a miniature crown and family keepsakes. His Gilbert-and-Sullivan facial hair covers his cheeks and then stops at his chin. At Ibrox, they affectionately refer to him as Muttonchops. In his career as one of Scotland’s greatest barristers, he evinced a melodramatic persona to match his overwrought attire. Findlay achieved his infamy by freeing some of his hardest clients, including hooligans on both sides of the Old Firm. His flowery oratory flooded the jury box with tears.
After the match, I met Findlay at a hotel bar. Despite a legal career filled with high-profile successes, he will always be best known for his time as the flamboyant vice-chairman of Rangers. Attending games at Celtic Park, he’d sit in the box reserved for the opposing management. He’d deliberately show disdain for his surroundings, kicking up his wingtips and placing them on the box’s polished wood. Besieged by a torrent of verbal abuses from Celtic fans, he’d take long drags on his pipe, appearing utterly unmoved. When his Rangers scored goals, Findlay liked to celebrate as ostentatiously and gleefully as possible, the only man standing and cheering amid a sea of dejection. In interviews, he’d go a step further. He made a running gag out of the fact that he didn’t celebrate his birthday, because it fell on St. Patrick’s Day. Instead, he said that be celebrated on July twelfth, the anniversary of King Billy’s triumph. In his living room, he would stage Orange marches.
On a May night in 1999, his tenure at Rangers came to an abrupt end. Findlay sang, “We’re up to our knees in Fenian Blood” on the karaoke machine, his arm drunkenly draped over a player’s shoulder. He had gathered with the rest of the Rangers club to celebrate a victory over Celtic. In his jubilation, he had repeated lyrics that Rangers supporters blare on a weekly basis, that leading lights of society had sung for generations. Most of them, however, hadn’t been captured on a video that would be handed over to the Daily Record. On the same spring evening that Findlay raised his pint glass and damned the papists, Rangers’ darkest impulses were responsible for dark acts. Rangers fans stabbed, shot and beat senseless three young Celtic supporters.
They murdered one and left another in critical condition.
If these events hadn’t coincided, perhaps Findlay could have defended himself in the press. But the environment wouldn’t stand for any excuses. The morning that the Findlay story broke in the paper, he resigned from Rangers management. Over the next few months, as Scottish eminences lined up to condemn him he purchased pills and flirted with suicide. St. Andrew’s University where he had just finished a six-year term as rector, canceled its plans to award Findlay an honorary degree.
The Scottish Faculty of Advocates, the body governing the nation’s lawyers, fined him 3,500 pounds.
Alasdair Lamont@BBCAlLamont·6m
Another document at Companies House today shows Craig Whyte reappointed at Sevco 5088. Endless manoeuvrings there it seems.
Phil MacGiollaBhain@Pmacgiollabhain·3 mins
@BBCAlLamont Contingent Liability…
Another document at Companies House today shows Craig Whyte reappointed at Sevco 5088.
its a braw life ……aye braw
“Stalag Sevco” Brilliant Phil Mac – from now on thats what Ibrox will be known as when discussing them and their manager – Ally McSleekit (as requested recently by a CQN poster)…
New issue of CQN Magazine out today. Read the Pat Nevin interview, we look at Celtic’s need to move! , we feature the best 15 domestic matches since Lisbon and there are bottles of very special whisky to be won for the supporters have attended the most of these 15 matches. I was at 11.
Green man
What’s SNP got to do with independence? Usual propaganda from people like you.
I know my history and that’s why I want away from British Rule.
Do not visit the sins of our fathers on us
Yet more evidence above that a proportion of the electorate will be wearing their footy scarf to the polls.
Only in Scotland.
Oh well.
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
11:18 on 5 February, 2014
The way the blog is going CQTEN is going to be gay pride meets Nuremberg rally meets Thingummyjig.
Help needed as what to wear, don’t want to be the odd one out.
ConfusedCSC
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Belter!
Can’t go wrong with leather.
Just as well CQN10 is no happenin’ in Movember….
:-)
winning captains
11:56 on 5 February, 2014
New issue of CQN Magazine out today. Read the Pat Nevin interview, we look at Celtic’s need to move! , we feature the best 15 domestic matches since Lisbon and there are bottles of very special whisky to be won for the supporters have attended the most of these 15 matches. I was at 11.
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How do we buy the magazine … Been meaning to buy every 1 thats come out but always forget. Determind to buy this issue and support the hardwork put into it.
Got my new gear today for the CQteN Gala to be held next month in the new, equal Scotland.
Johnnyclash
Pink tartan lederhosen unless anyone else has suggested it.
MWD
I will take cognisance of your advice because I respect your opinions, but I would say that although my language may be a bit emotional there is not one thing I have said that is not true.
One thing that does get me is them that are arguing for the status quo seem, to me at least, to think we need a Utopia or Shangri-La before contemplating switching