Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Anyway, have I mentioned how highly I rate Ings?

 

Phil McCunty accuses Liverpool of buying the league

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46712565

 

'Expensively assembled defensive solidity'...................forgetting the shoe string budget on TAA, Gomez and Robbo

 

Shoestring front 3 for us too. Shoestring backup in Shaqiri.

They also forget, for example, that...
Man City have a £49m third choice CB because they just bought a £57m one
Man Utd have a £52m backup to a £89m midfielder
Chelsea have a £72m keeper
Arsenal have a £109m front two

 

It is pretty expensive though. As expensive as moneybags Chelsea and only city have a more expensive side

 

But.........but.......Liverpool are buying the league

 

Man Utd's side cost more than City's

 

And you spent unprecedented amounts for an English side in the Summer

 

Accept the fact that the incoming cash from Cout's sale was well spent in the right area's on the right players

 

Talking about defence. You can astro news us on another topic .

 

Depends when you count the Keita money as being spent

 

Yup .You've invested it brilliantly. Plugged in all the gaps you needed

 

Same if you look at the backup too really; Clyne, Matip, Moreno, Migs only cost a Lovren

 

Didn't Clyne cost more than Lovren?

 

Only if you ignore inflation which went crazy, we spent some since.

 

No. Clyne was only £12m. Lovren was over £30m

 

No he wasn't he was £20m

Think you're right on Clyne actually though now I think about it because he only had a year left.

 

Your right, it was £20m. Must have been Lallana that was more

 

Lallana was £25m

 

So our first and second choice back five cost a grand total of about £200m.

Considering that includes two world record breaking deals (accounting for about £140m of it and paid for by the Coutinho sale), it's not exactly a lot compared to others in the league.

Man City have spent that much on FBs alone!!!

Not small change either mind