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I've never understood this thing for college games by tv. They are amateurs (I think!), not professionals in the USA. But then I don't like basketball or gridiron.
 
The Changing Man said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50685505

Some interesting stats for the last decade.

I note that they only talk about spending in league terms and not specific to clubs. Just looking at the top 6 in their list it would be worth noting that every point City have won has come at a cost (just in transfer fees) of £1.8 Million (gross spend) or £1.2 Mill (net) - by comparison each point we have won has cost £913,00 (gross) or £123,000 (net). In between the Gross figures are Chelsea 1.6m, Man U 1.5m, Liverpool 1.3m & Arsenal 1.1m - Net they move around Man U 919,00, Chelsea 500,000, Arsenal 485,000, & Liverpool 363,000.

There is no question that if wages were also factored in we would look even more effective, and whilst there are no prizes for being a well run club, I do think that as we narrow the gap financially this does augur well or the future. It also shows just what a good job Poch did (though we all knew that).

I would also suggest that if half way through the decade I had suggested that we would end the decade with as many wins in the league as the Goons by the time we reached Dec 2019 I would have been laughed out of town, but its there in black and white as much to do with them slipping I will agree, but it still looks good to see a table for the 10 years with us ahead of them even it is by the smallest of margins.
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Ignoring the fact that the decade doesn't end until the end of next year, I'm surprised Utd are 2nd given the abysmal showing since SAF left in May 2013.
City aside, the other top six sides had good and bad spells resulting in all of them having similar records.
If only all those billions hadn't been thrown at City.....
 
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I've never understood this thing for college games by tv. They are amateurs (I think!), not professionals in the USA. But then I don't like basketball or gridiron.
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I am also at a loss to explain the strange obsession of USA fans with youth group competitions.
 
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littleDinosaurLuke said:
Ignoring the fact that the decade doesn't end until the end of last year, I'm surprised Utd are 2nd given the abysmal showing since SAF left in May 2013.
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Fergie sides finished miles ahead of the herd, whether champions or not.


"City aside, the other top six sides had good and bad spells resulting in all of them having similar records.
If only all those billions hadn't been thrown at City."

The usual suspects who won the PL this decade averaged only 3-10 pts
per season more. The pattern for GD suggests the Poool should have
at least one PL title (shame :) ) .
 
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In ya pop Partridge said:
Sean Wright Phillips told a story about when he was at Chelsea.

They were facing us in the Cup. Mourinho told him that he wouldn’t be starting the match, but that if they were losing at half time he’d bring him on and Chelsea would draw the match, and then beat us at the Lane.

SWP said that Chelsea went in at half time 3-0 down to us, so Mourhino brought him on for the second half, and the match ended a draw. Chelsea went on to beat us 1-2 at Lane.

SWP said that players used to love playing us because we would “roll over” when we went behind. He said that Mourhino will change that.
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Great story...apart from the fact we were not 3 nil up...we were 3-1 up...to a team who were light years ahead of us player wise.
 
littleDinosaurLuke said:
Ignoring the fact that the decade doesn't end until the end of next year, I'm surprised Utd are 2nd given the abysmal showing since SAF left in May 2013.
City aside, the other top six sides had good and bad spells resulting in all of them having similar records.
If only all those billions hadn't been thrown at City.....
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If you take the 10 completed seasons 2009-2010 - 2018-2019 and work out the average league position for these 6 teams City average highest at 2.3, Utd and Chelsea joint 2nd at 3.5, then us and Goons average 4 and LIverpool last of the 6 on the 10 year ave at 5.4.
 
The Changing Man said:
If you take the 10 completed seasons 2009-2010 - 2018-2019 and work out the average league position for these 6 teams City average highest at 2.3, Utd and Chelsea joint 2nd at 3.5, then us and Goons average 4 and LIverpool last of the 6 on the 10 year ave at 5.4.
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Don't give those stats to VAR, as they'll review them and decide actually Liverpool were best.
 
Pool getting a signing done already, have to praise how they've been doing business these past 18-24 months, they've not been messing about and just got straight to business. Done similar with van Dijk, signed him in December so that he could be registered on Jan 1st and ready to go.

So who's hoping for Gio to be made permanent, along with Koulibaly, Aarons and Soumare all done by Jan 1st then? <laugh>
 
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It’ll be interesting to see if the presence of Mourhino has an effect on dealings.

I would be surprised if Mourhino didn’t discuss potential signings with Levy, before taking on the job.
 
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