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ABBEY
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Don't care how much spent . So as I said earlier anyone outside the top 6 has to play hoofball and try and attack or win?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.