I have just read this on another forum, all credit to Citizen_Blue. Thought it might be an idea to summarise on one thread the changes we have made to our squad. I have made some assumptions on the fees/wages so might be miles off. Incoming Scott Sinclair £6.2m fee £40k wages Richard Wright free £5k wages Jack Rodwell £12m £40k wages Maicon £3m £80k wages Javi Garcia £16m £80k wages Matija Nastasic £12m £20k wages Total fees £49.2m £265k wages Outgoing Stefan Savic free £20k wages Nigel De Jong £10m £80k wages Emmanuel Adebayor £5m £160k wages Roque Santa Cruz £500k £30k wages Adam Johnson £12m £60k wages Dedryk Boyata free £10k wages Vladimir Weiss £1.2m £20k wages Juan Roman £800k £2k wages Owen Hargreaves released £5k wages David Pizzaro released £40k Transfers £29.5m wages £427k That means we have roughly spent £20m net in the transfer window but saved roughly £160k per week in wages (£8.3m per year)
What you fail to state is you have brought five crap players who will not improve your average team one bit, desperate bitters are falling apart. MUFC THE REAL THING
I wil ignore the CHMPIONS bit and go on to say only just with the last kick of the season on goal difference, this was a once in a lifetime ending to a season. This time you will have to do it on points against more than one team. Most teams have strengthened this window and will expect to play better than last year (where the media seemed to think you had an all conquering team) and so you will have to be better too if you want to compete.
He has a point, teams that don't strengthen in the summer tend to struggle to do as well the following season. That said, Javi Garcia should be a good signing so you'll just have to see how it goes.
Yeh because the best thing to do when you are champions is stay the same or even better go backwards.
