Our top 10 record signings.

Originally Posted by dunk

No, that’s just not how it works.

We can’t spend outside of the ffp budget, that remains the same regardless of owner and their wealth.

And as highlighted by someone yesterday, look at the state of PSG now. Spent fortunes and £600m in debt without a CL to show for it.

Originally Posted by est.1878

Anyone prepared to do one adjusted for inflation?

Done quick test calc and I have Robson coming out at about 7.5m. Will get quayd on peer review

Think there’ s a difference between “normal” inflation and football inflation. The Premier League and all it brought is a bit more like a rebasing of the football currency.

Originally Posted by Gypsum Fantastic

1 Paul Pogba 16/17 €105.00m
2 Antony 22/23 €95.00m
3 Harry Maguire 19/20 €87.00m
4 Jadon Sancho 21/22 €85.00m
5 Romelu Lukaku 17/18 €84.70m
6 Ángel Di María 14/15 €75.00m
7 Casemiro 22/23 €70.65m
8 Bruno Fernandes 19/20 €65.00m
9 Anthony Martial 15/16 €60.00m
10 Fred 18/19 €59.00m

€800m!!

Nothing we don't already know but that's not a great return so far on a lot of money.

Then again if Antony and Sancho turn it around and we recoup decent money for Fred, Martial and Bonce then it suddenly looks alright. Still... lot of cash for the League Cup...

There's some shambolic wastes of money in there.

You know how we pay the "utd premium", what's it gonna be like with Qatar? (assuming a non brown envelope operation)

Originally Posted by tatty

Ey up, Jim Glazers in.

File alongside "Putin will destroy Europe" & 'BoJo makes politics FUN!'

You're so far off the £#%&!ing track on practically any topic.

Originally Posted by ErikvanHaaksbergen

File alongside "Putin will destroy Europe" & 'BoJo makes politics FUN!'

You're so far off the £#%&!ing track on practically any topic.

Where have you come from?

New accounts bashing their gums

Originally Posted by Sparky***

There's some shambolic wastes of money in there.

20% hit rate.

Expected signings etc

Originally Posted by Gypsum Fantastic

1 Paul Pogba 16/17 €105.00m
2 Antony 22/23 €95.00m
3 Harry Maguire 19/20 €87.00m
4 Jadon Sancho 21/22 €85.00m
5 Romelu Lukaku 17/18 €84.70m
6 Ángel Di María 14/15 €75.00m
7 Casemiro 22/23 €70.65m
8 Bruno Fernandes 19/20 €65.00m
9 Anthony Martial 15/16 €60.00m
10 Fred 18/19 €59.00m

5 of these players are in the top 10 most expensive Premier League transfers of all time. Another 2 in the top 20.

Antony and Maguire in the top 10 most expensive EPL transfers of all time is a joke. Fred and Martial make this list absolutely laughable.

Seriously, I cannot think of another sports club, let alone football club that has been run so poorly as a business.

God help us all if it's not a full sale.

Originally Posted by ErikvanHaaksbergen

Well yeah, spent the most in the world over the past decade. Had to go somewhere.

Martial to be fair looked like a young Henry when he first came in. Stunner on his debut. Lightning quick. Always taking players on. Some mixture of mind & body seems to have gone awry along the way. Too much money too soon maybe.

Maguire the stand out lunacy of course but to be honest Fred not too far behind. God knows what the logic behind that one was. Shambolic purchase for the money.

Your right about, Martial in his 1st Season(well he only arrived a few weeks into the 2015/16 season), he looked absolutly unstoppable & if anyone had predicted back then how he was gonna go down-hill ,none of us would have belived them, but sadly has'nt really been the same from the start of 2016/17, when Mourinho took-over & it is almost as though he has been in a permanent sulk eversince.

Originally Posted by Gordon Hill

Your right about, Martial in his 1st Season(well he only arrived a few weeks into the 2015/16 season), he looked absolutly unstoppable & if anyone had predicted back then how he was gonna go down-hill ,none of us would have belived them, but sadly has'nt really been the same from the start of 2016/17, when Mourinho took-over & it is almost as though he has been in a permanent sulk eversince.

Strange as it sounds, he scored as many league goals in 2019 as Rashford did this season.

May be a coincidence, but he was made the highest paid forward in the league .. then the form collapsed not soon after. He must have a net worth c. £50 million .. perhaps he just can't be £#%&!ed with it all. Wouldn't be the first time a player fell out of love with the game after riches arrived.