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Territorial
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For it doesn't reflect net transfer spending (i.e. including transfer receipts), nor does it even mention wages. For example, Sanchez "only" cost Man U £25m, but his wages are enormous. And Chelsea are listed in 5th place, ahead of Real Madrid(!), yet their net spend has gone down in recent years compared to City, MU, Liverpool, even Arsenal, since they're actually bringing in a lot of money from transferring/loaning their second string players. And if/when Hazard should depart, they will be losing their last truly world class player (Courteois too, I suppose, but gk's simply aren't as costly as midfielders or defenders these days, never mind strikers). I guess it's because he's got a billion pound stadium to fund, but as the excellent 'Swiss Rambler' recently pointed out, Abramovic's spending on Chelsea hasn't been keeping up with the other big English clubs of late:
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Roberto Baggio
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Man Utd had the most expensively assembled squad in history for a couple of years there and all they did was finish 4th, 6th and win a couple of second rate cups.
So you can't really read too much into these things. |
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The Huntacha
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Did Suarez not go on his biting spree around the time he would have been in the running to win it? Would imagine that would have played a big part in the decision.
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The Huntacha
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It does get you the longest unbeaten record in club history though.
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Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."
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Hans Moleman
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It's laughable that Xavi didn't win it in 2010.
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"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."
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Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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in 2015 / 2016 season many people thought Suarez had a better season than Messi. Suarez 40 La Liga Goals and 16 Assists 8 Champions league Other 11 Total 59 goals Messi 26 La Liga Goals and 16 Assists 6 9 Total 41 goals Edited by Zinedine Kilbane 110 - 13 Feb 2018 at 1:07pm |
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Hans Moleman
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Yep. Sensational season. I remember reading at the time that very few players had ever hit 40 goals in one season in La Liga. To not make the top 3 that season was a joke.
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"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."
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Bob Hoskins
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Can this bullsh*t of marketing picks the winner, be nipped in the bud as I have heard several of you mention it. The FIFA Ballon d'Or was awarded based on votes from international journalists and national team coaches and captains, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year.
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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Hans Moleman
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I know very well how it's picked! You couldn't have a worse selection process imo. Players voting for a world player of the year it makes an absolute mockery of the whole thing. Most of these guys only watch a handful of games in a season in their spare time. Hence when you're a big name player, you're getting voted for by numerous people who are professional players, but really aren't any way fit to judge how well hundreds of players have performed over a year.
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"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."
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Bob Hoskins
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Ok lets get a panel from football forums to pick the winners, as the national captains and managers and journalists are all clueless twonks that know nothing about the profession they have spent most of their lives working in
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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Reildogg
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I *think* Liverpool's net spend is about £100 over the past 7 or so years. Chelsea must be ahead of that. |
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Territorial
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#CFC net spend has substantially fallen in last 2 seasons to £21m annual average, compared to £65m for 2011-15.
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Double Maxim
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Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world
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Gary McKay
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Slur Alex !!!! I rest my case. PS Have you seen some of the 'regional' votes cast in the past. Laughable. The only votes Roy Keane received in 2001 were from the Dutch (van Gaal) and Portugeuse managers.
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"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex
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Shoco
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But you know better cos you obviously watch every game in every league then? |
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Hans Moleman
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"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."
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Shoco
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Well if you have an idea that does a better job than the players who play against each other, the coaches that prepare their teams to play against other players, or the journalists that get paid to watch the players, I'd love to hear it
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Hans Moleman
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Edited by Hans Moleman - 13 Feb 2018 at 7:32pm |
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"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."
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