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Originally Posted by All Systems Go
Like Man U havn't spent shitlonds on players? Rooney? Ferdinand? Out of that list only 2 cost more than £20 million, one was Sheva (who wouldn't pay that for him) and the other was Drogba (who was the best player all season), so it's not exactly been a waste.
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Consider the length of time these signings have been spread over, as well as the quantity of them.
Current first-team players only:
Man United
Rio Ferdinand - £30m - July 2002
Cristiano Ronaldo - £12.25m - August 2003
note: Beckham/Veron sold for a combined £40m - August 2003
Louis Saha - £12.8m - January 2004
Alan Smith - £7m - May 2004
Wayne Rooney - £20m - August 2004
Edwin Van der Sar - free - June 2005
Nemanja Vidic - £7m - January 2006
Patrice Evra - £5.5m - January 2006
Michael Carrick - £18.6m - July 2006
Chelsea
Joe Cole - £6.6m - August 2003
Claude Makelele - £16.6m - September 2003
Petr Cech - £7m - June 2004
Arjen Robben - £12m - July 2004
Paulo Ferreira - £13.2m - July 2004
Didier Drogba - £24m - July 2004
Ricardo Carvalho - £20m - July 2004
Shaun Wright-Phillips - £21m - July 2005
Michael Essien - £24.4m - August 2005
Salomon Kalou - £8m - May 2006
Andrei Shevchenko - £30m - May 2006
Khalid Boulahrouz - £7m - August 2006
Ashley Cole - £5m + Gallas - August 2006
I count 4 players over £20m there, with a few over £10m as well. When Man United have spent big and have been able to afford to. Who remembers Parker, Tiago, Veron, Kezman, Duff, Mutu, Crespo? You didn't make anything even approaching a profit on
any of them.