
s@int wrote:Don't you think that after 5 years and a total spend of £200million, we should be a little further down the line than we are? We are quite a number of players short of having a strong first team and adequate backup, especially when you consider that in 2006 we "seemed" to be only a couple of players short.
I know we have all been waiting for the missing piece of the jigsaw to arrive, but maybe its not the missing piece of the jigsaw thats the problem, maybe its the person thats trying to put it together?
s@int wrote:Net Spend 04 - 09 Purchased Sold Nett Per Season
1 Manchester City £171,020,000 £49,900,000 £121,120,000 £24,224,000
2 Chelsea £248,450,000 £117,300,000 £131,150,000 £26,230,000
3 Liverpool £212,490,000 £102,030,000 £110,460,000 £22,092,000
4 Manchester United £176,450,000 £76,050,000 £100,400,000 £20,080,000
5 Tottenham £226,100,000 £137,250,000 £88,850,000 £17,770,000
6 Aston Villa £95,150,000 £21,255,000 £73,895,000 £14,779,000
Effes wrote:s@int wrote:Don't you think that after 5 years and a total spend of £200million, we should be a little further down the line than we are? We are quite a number of players short of having a strong first team and adequate backup, especially when you consider that in 2006 we "seemed" to be only a couple of players short.
I know we have all been waiting for the missing piece of the jigsaw to arrive, but maybe its not the missing piece of the jigsaw thats the problem, maybe its the person thats trying to put it together?s@int wrote:Net Spend 04 - 09 Purchased Sold Nett Per Season
1 Manchester City £171,020,000 £49,900,000 £121,120,000 £24,224,000
2 Chelsea £248,450,000 £117,300,000 £131,150,000 £26,230,000
3 Liverpool £212,490,000 £102,030,000 £110,460,000 £22,092,000
4 Manchester United £176,450,000 £76,050,000 £100,400,000 £20,080,000
5 Tottenham £226,100,000 £137,250,000 £88,850,000 £17,770,000
6 Aston Villa £95,150,000 £21,255,000 £73,895,000 £14,779,000
s@int, I think it's important that we consider only Net spend.
Surely if Rafa bought Sissoko for £5.8M then sold him for £8M, that should be taken into consideration and added to the figures. Conversely, if sold for a loss it would impact on the "Net" spend accordingly.
I agree with your general comment though - I would expect our squad to be more "bolstered" than it is after 5 seasons in charge.
Finding ourselves with just one quality striker (Kuyt doesn't count), threadbare in the right back position, and desparate for a right-sided/winger - it is clear the squad is no where near where it should be.
GYBS wrote:Should the fact he got so much for then in the first place count for something ? Also how much of the 200 mil went on kids for the future ? and how many of them are really any better than what we have in our first team ?maybe some better than back ups but how many of them would of been willing to stay as back up ?
LegBarnes wrote:dawson99 wrote:Jeez Chelsea have an old squad lol.
yep 2 seasons then they gonna need massive rebuild I think and with mr russia him self pocketless its gonna be very funny time indeed.
I expect them to fall off back to there old 7-8th finishs by 2011
GYBS wrote:what do you mean whoever comes in next season ? Sorry mick but Rafa is being offered a new contract so as much as people want him out it looks like he wants to stay and the owners want him to stay so i hope and i really do hope that when he is here next season that people support him . we all know there is some gaps , we all know there is some areas that need improving , we all know some signings didnt work but most of us also know that rafa hasnt been able to shop in the same places as other teams due to the fact while he has spent money there is only the odd few times he has been able to get a top player for top dollar - other times he has had to spread that money out over a number of players who werent world class - and he has had to do that to try and strengthen the squad to compete on more than one front . Its not like he has had the spending power off the mancs in terms of 30 mil for this player and 30 mil for that player . everyone has seen that . while we went and bought kuyt for 10 mil chelsea bought schev for 30 mil and drogba for 20 odd miland the mancs went and got rooney for 30 mil berbatov for 30 mil and tevez for a possible 30 mil . the mancs and chelsea havent had to thinly spread the money to buy a squad - we have .
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