*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

[Loony BoB]

That's crazy. Dare I ask about other clubs? Sounds more like it was just Arsenal not spending rather than SAF spending a lot. 540,000 over eight years is nothing for a big club. Even I know that. What about Real, Liverpool, Juve and so on?

...if this isn't asking too much, of course.

EDIT: Surprised at how few purchased they made over those eight years, too... you sure that's the lot?

 

[GIMH]

Think it was 89/90 actually that win...

87-95

In:
Kevin Richardson 200k
Lee Dixon 400k
David Seaman 1.3M
Andy Linighan 1.25M
Anders Limpar 1M
Ian Wright 2.5M
Jimmy Carter 500k
John Jensen 1.1M
Martin Keown 2M
Eddie McGoldrick 1M
Stefan Schwarz - 1.8M
Lee Harper - 150k
Vince Bartram 40k

Total: 13.24M

Out:
Roger Stanislaus
Kenny Sansom
Brian Marwood All Free
Rhys Wilmot 100k
Andy Marriott 50k
Steve Ball Free
Nial Quinn 800k
John Lukic 1M
Kevin Richardson 750k
Gus Cesar Free
Colin Hoyle Free
Pat Scully 100k
Kwame Ampadu 50k
Martin Hayes 650k
Michael Thomas 1.5M
Andy Cole 500k
Charlie Hartfield
Gary McKeown Both Free
David Rocastle 2M
Matt Joseph
Jason Brissett
Nicky Rust All Free
Paul Harford Free
Neil Heaney 300k
Anders Limpar 1.6M
Alan Millar 500k
Kevin Campbell 2.8M
Jimmy Carter Free

Total: 12.7M

Difference = Arsenal made a loss of 540k over the same period.

It was 89. That's why it wound up as the last game, well after everyone else's fixtures had finished, because Liverpool had loads of games PPd due to Hillsborough. Liverpool won it back in 90, then Arsenal in 91

 

[Matteh]

That's crazy. Dare I ask about other clubs? Sounds more like it was just Arsenal not spending rather than SAF spending a lot. 540,000 over eight years is nothing for a big club. Even I know that. What about Real, Liverpool, Juve and so on?

...if this isn't asking too much, of course.

EDIT: Surprised at how few purchased they made over those eight years, too... you sure that's the lot?

The site i'm using will only cover the British transfers in any detail. Liverpool should be no problem.

 

[Matteh]

Liverpool

87-95

In:
John Barnes 900k
Peter Beardsley 1.9M
Mike Marsh Free
Ray Houghton 825k
Ian Rush 2.8M
David Burrows 550k
Glen Hysen Free
Steve Harkness 75k
Ronny Rosenthal 1M
Don Hutchinson 175k
Jimmy Carter 800k
Jamie Redknapp 350k
Mark Wright 2.2M
Dean Saunders 2.9M
Mark Walters 1.25M
Rob Jones 300k
Michael Thomas 1.5M
Lee Jones 300k
Scott Paterson 15k
David James 1M
Paul Stewart 2.3M
Stig-inge Bjornebye 600k
Nigel Clough 2.275M
Neil Ruddock 2.5M
Julian Dicks 1.5
Michael Stensgaard 400k
Phil Babb 3.6M
John Scales 3.5M

Total: 35.515M



Out:
Mark Seagraves 100k
John Wark 100k
Paul Walsh 500k
John Jeffers 30k
Nigel Spackman 500k
John Durnin 225k
Billy Mercer Free
John Aldridge 1M
Spencer Whelan Free
Jim Magilton 100k
Alex Watson 150k
Andy Roscoe Free
Peter Beardsley 1M
Steve Staunton 1.1M
Gary Gillespie 925k
Jimmy Carter 500k
Steve McMahon 900k
Ray Houghton 900k
Barry Venison 250k
Dean Saunders 2.3M
Mike Hooper 500k
Ronny Rosenthal 250k
Don Hutchinson 1.5M

Total: 12.83

Difference - Liverpool made a loss of 22.685M over this period.

 

[Loony BoB]

What site do you use to get this info?

 

[Matteh]

The Alex Ferguson stuff came from the Telegraph, but the Arsenal/Liverpool ones i got from http://www.soccerbase.com, pretty solid site as long as you stick to Britain.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Back in that day and age £15m was a lot.

Look at the prices being paid, and you'll see how much it was.

Not over that many transfers it isn't. Mitchell has just kindly posted up the Liverpool stats and they made a bigger loss, while falling from grace, wheras United rose from 11th (when he took over they were even lower than that) to Double winners.

EDIT: Admittedly Arsenal did very well, but they were never really that dominant, they won IIRC 2 league titles and didn't do too much else in the league.

And no-one has managed to come up with a reason why those stats were picked so selectively yet...

 

[Tom Halsey]

Think Shaka Hislop from Reading to Newcastle in '96 for 1.6M was a GK record at the time.

That's a threefold increase over only 5 years and Schmeichel was a lot better than Hislop...

 

[marc71178]

That's crazy. Dare I ask about other clubs? Sounds more like it was just Arsenal not spending rather than SAF spending a lot. 540,000 over eight years is nothing for a big club.

You've missed a few numbers there - and it is a lot of money in the time in which it was spent.

 

[marc71178]

Not over that many transfers it isn't.

It's going to be over more transfers because fees were so much lower.

Hence the total spend (which would be small in this day and age) is far from small in the period it was in.

 

[Loony BoB]

You've missed a few numbers there - and it is a lot of money in the time in which it was spent.

Not over eight years, it's not. Surely. Unless £70,000 is big spending.

 

[Tom Halsey]

It's going to be over more transfers because fees were so much lower.

Hence the total spend (which would be small in this day and age) is far from small in the period it was in.

United bought 31 players in over that time period (and sold a lot more). 15 million devided by 31 is just under £500000 a transfer, and over the time period it's under £2 million a year. For a big club, that's not a lot, in the late 80s and early 90s. As you can see, Liverpool made more of a loss.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Cech messes it up again, didn't catch a simple cross, from resulting free-kick Liverpool score (and I think Cech could have made a better effort with that too...)

 

[Loony BoB]

Hoping the match heats up a lot and there are many yellow cards handed out and a lot of people missing the final which will hopefully be against United.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Gerrard's famed 'touch of a sack of spuds' on display tonight then.

 

[Tom Halsey]

The traditional invisible display from Lampard on the big night so far.

 

[Loony BoB]

The traditional invisible display from Lampard on the big night so far.

Including the trademark over-the-crossbar punted free kick.

EDIT: Wish Ronaldo didn't copy it all the time, though.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ooooo. Kuyt has goal disallowed for offside. Marginal at best.

Hoping for pens after coming this far tbh.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Typical football, crucial bad offside decision(s) and a big game decided by a glorified coin tossing competition.

 

[Jamee999]

REINA! REINA! Go Liverpool!