jees gord , mr controversy.
I don't think your daft but which part do the ones who love boring footy with no flair( and the messiah wanted out )do you not get.He was not part of jeromes.keans and the scums mafia,if we had won 20-0 at old Trafford he was gone. Boo boys ha
what would you rather watch a game like Liverpool and city, arsenal v Chelsea or a game between zzzam and john beck?
You've named 4 teams from the top 6 there, Abs... Probably a combined spend of £600m since this time last year.
Best to remember that in Allardyce' last summer transfer window at the club he spent precisely..... £0. The season before that (09/10) he spent £12m, whilst bringing in £33m in transfer fees.
Just as an interesting comparison - 09/10 season we finished 10th in the league;
1st - Chelsea - £27m
2nd - United - £25m
3rd - Arsenal - 10.8m
4th - Spurs - £37m
5th - Man City - £132m
6th - Villa - £42m
7th - Liverpool - £40m
8th - Everton - £21m
9th - Birmingham - £18.5m
10th - Blackburn - £12m.
11th - Stoke - £25m.
12th - Fulham - £6.39m (Hodgson)
13th - Sunderland - £41m
14th - Bolton - £10.8m
15th - Wolves - £17.5m
16th - Wigan - £17m
17th - West Ham - £20m
18th - Burnley - £12m
19th - Hull - £15m
20th - Portsmouth - £10m
Based on that, we were the 4th lowest spenders and finished the highest in the league out of those 4. Obviously there are a few factors to be taken - Rovers actually MADE a net profit of £21m that summer, for example - I'm not going to start working this out for all clubs before anyone asks!
Martin O'Neill was a name on the lips of Rovers fans when Allardyce was sacked. From August 06 to August 10 he spent £169m of Randy Lerner's money.
Martin Jol was also a hot favourite - Spent close to £180m between in 3 seasons.
If anyone can find a copy of the league table when Sam was sacked I will do the same based on the fact we spent £0 that summer - My hunch is that would put us rock bottom of the spending list.
I think it's fair to say the top 7 or 8 were more advanced than the rest of the league, and fair play to Bimringham, they had that amazing season under McCleish when they had just come up - we finished level on points with them.
Anyway, just a little something to consider.