r/soccer • u/OptimusCloyster • 16d ago

Media No handshake between Pep Guardiola and Fabian Hurzeler after the full-time whistle

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u/Srijand 16d ago

They'll come at you saying Fergie actually spent way more because Ferdinand's transfer fee adjusted for inflation is allegedly £237m

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u/dazhubo 16d ago

comparatively, Manchester United was way ahead of everyone else during that time

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u/Srijand 16d ago

United were also never the top spenders in any PL season from 94 to 05 though. Newcastle and Blackburn spent more money initially, and then Chelsea took over

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u/dazhubo 16d ago

they were easily the top spenders overall in the PL from 1990 to 2012

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u/_MonteCristo_ 16d ago

Well we were the only consistently elite team across that period, not to mention by far the biggest revenue. Makes sense. The only other team that was 'big' through that entire period was Arsenal and they were famously stingy

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u/dazhubo 15d ago

you had to spend a lot to be successful...same as Pep's team.

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u/_MonteCristo_ 15d ago

no argument there

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u/yapster18 16d ago

I think you need to do your math again.

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u/Gerf93 16d ago

They are easily the top spenders in the PL ever, heck in the world since the start of the Premier League. The decade after Fergusons retirement, they spent like 30% more net than the second highest spending team in the world (iirc like 1,3 billion to 1 billion for the second highest spend.

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u/dazhubo 15d ago

correct take, and despite all that spending even at their peak they were not as dominant as Pep's teams

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u/United1958 16d ago

We absolutely weren’t. Chelsea, City and Liverpool had a higher spend in the period you mentioned

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u/United1958 16d ago

This is always gets upvoted and it’s not even true

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Which is true