Nemanja Matic

De Gea £18m
Valencia £16m
Bailly £30m
Lindelof £31m
Shaw £27m
Herrera £29m
Matic £40m
Mkhitaryan £30m
Pogba £89m
Martial £36m
Lukaku £75m
TOTAL £419m approx

Vs

Ederson £30m
Walker £50m
Stones £48m
Otamendi £32m
Mendy £53m
Fernandinho £35m
De Bruyne £55m
Sterling £50
Silva £43m
Sane £44m
Aguero £38m
TOTAL £478m approx
Vs

Courtois £8m
Moses £9m
Azpi £7m
Rudiger £34m
Luiz £30m
Alonso £23m
Bakayoko £40m
Kante £32m
Hazard £32m
Pedro £21m
Morata £58m
TOTAL £293m

Vs

Trapp £10m
Alves £0m
Marquinhos £28m
Silva £38m
Kurzawa £18m
Matuidi £6m
Veratti £10m
Di Maria £44m
Moura £38m
Draxler £40m
Cavani £55m
TOTAL £287m

Vs

Cech £5m
Bellerin £0m
Koscielny £10m
Mustafi £35m
Holding £5m
Monreal £10m
Xhaka £35m
Cazorla £15m
Sanchez £32m
Ozil £42m
Lacazette £53m
TOTAL £242m

 

Raheem Sterling though.

 

Edited

 

Out of interest how much have Arsenal and Liverpool spent since either won the Premier League title?

 

If the rule is most expensive ahead of best, then it's Batshuayi ahead of Pedro for Chelsea, and Mangala ahead of Kompany for City. If it's best (on form and / or appearances) then Rashford or Lingard ahead of Martial for Utd.

Also Trapp was PSG's first choice keeper for most of last season.

 

It had to be realistic too. Mangala is nowhere near even the bench. Batshuayi more debatable but still he's currently only third choice striker and not a wing forward. Trapp... Edited.

 

Tons and tons probably. The debate is not whether the spend has been worth anything. The point is who currently has the most expensive realistic first XI.

 

Kompany is only fit for 17 mins per season so is swap him for Otamendi.

 

Otamendi then. Played 80% of league games last season vs only a handful for Kompany when not crocked.

Martial is currently third choice for Utd behind Lingard and Rashford, so if you want to be credible with this you need to be consistent with Batshuayi. He played at least half of Chelsea's games last season, probably a similar proportion as Martial played of Utd's given our longer cup runs.

 

Otamendi, fair enough, adjusted.

Batshuayi has started 1 game for Chelsea, rejected. His appearances are cameo sub apps.

Martial, started loads for united compared to Batshuayi so he remains for the same reason Otamendi is going in.

 

And yet you are perfectly happy with Shaw, who only featured in 11 games last season, ahead of Darmian, Rojo and Blind who all played four.

Chelsea's third choice striker excluded, Utd's current fourth choice left back included. Hmmm.....

 

City prices not all correct
David Silva should be included as he always plays when fit

 

But the aim was to try to make it the most expensive but remaining realistic. Batshuayi at no point will ever be first choice. Shaw would probably be if he was actually fit, wouldn't he? The others are just filling in for him while he recovers aren't they? You think I'm biased towards scummy Chelsea or something?!

 

I just did simple Google searches and picked the first thing that came up, which ones are wrong? David Silva probably always plays but the aim is to pick the most expensive but realistic XI... So sterling goes in for pure cost as he still plays a lot of games and could be deemed first XI.

 

Shaw's issues are not fitness related but attitude related.

Anyway, it's blatantly City innit.

 

Blatantly innit.

City have no excuse not to win the league. But united have no excuse not to run away with city at the top.

I've got vague memories of Shaw sorting himself out and getting into Mourinho's good books and becoming first choice but then getting injured?

 

Well if it worked like that United would be pounding the transfer market much harder than this. It doesn't, we have had to pay the prices required to get players to build a squad for the long-term, supplemented with our own academy graduates.

We have no excuses though, we should be challenging at the very least.

Shaw is a very strange one, has the talent but seems to have lost his way... Big season ahead for him.

 

Shaw looking like he's let himself go a bit in pre-season for you...

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Matic playing well. This guest commentator on mutv is shocking . I think I actually prefer neutral commentators now, I like to hear criticism