Quote:
Originally Posted by roadrunner_0
according to the BBC, sheva has scored 4 goals in premiership games this season, thats not a decent amount for a £30 million signing
and im not complaining, as that would mean i care, im simply pointing out the obvious
|
Obviously, it's not great but he's scored 14 in total and he has been getting better as vime as gne . I would bet he will do better next season. He is used to Italian football, he has been there for many years.
Quote:
Originally Posted by furball
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
|
this is still an obsecen amount of money. Chlesea were bought by a billionaire so it makes Man Utds expenditure look modest in comparison, but it really isn't.
Quote:
Originally Posted by furball
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
|
If you keep in mind that Chelsea get massively ripped off in every transfer because Abramovich is mega-rich then it doesn't look so bad.
Apart from Ferraria and Wright-Phillips, everyone one of those players have been brilliant and well worth the money, even though they were massively over-priced.