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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
£18million for Carrick ffs!
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21m£ for Wright-Phillips FFFFFFS! OMG OMG!
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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
Furthermore whilst United didn't pay for Scholes, Neville and Giggs there is no doubt they were all worth £20-30million at one stage. About 7 years ago if Scholes had gone to another team that team would have been built around him and he would have gone down as one of the greatest players in that teams history. But what are other teams supposed to do? say "oh well that's home grown talent, fair play give them the championship." It seems to me that they have every right to spend money to catch up.
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Yes, indeed. There's quite a bit of difference between buying a prime pitch for yourself with the money of an ex-Soviet white-collar thief who, according to sources, never gave **** all about football before his megalomaniac tendencies required him to buy a club and pour in the best he can get with money.
Likewise, had Scholes been bought away from Manchester United before the prime of his career, he wouldn't have been at 20m£ tag, not by a longshot. On the other hand, if you'd buy him to make your club succeed at his prime, he'd definately have costed as much as Drogba or any other Abrahamovic-bought.
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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
Finally I think Chelsea have found a new sort of barrier now, which is that once you get over a certain number of big name players its hard to keep them happy if you can't guarantee them games.
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That's understandable. It must be frusturating to be bought for 21m£ to sit on the subs bench.
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Originally Posted by Deffeh
Man Utd were lucky Gary Neville didnt get injured at all this year, phew.
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The talk about Chelsea season going tits up because of injuries in the back of the pitch is silly too. Manchester United season didn't go "fubar" even if they did have some key defenders injured too.