The Emirates FA Cup 4th Round ** Spoilers ** [27th - 30th January 2023]

BaZ87 said:
No but that wasn't the question, was it?
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It has an impact though. Players like Rice are not gonna uproot to Liverpool with the hope of maybe playing champs league one day when they can stay put and move to a London club that can guarantee it straight away.

I feel there’s been a big shift this year and in the future top 4 is far from guaranteed for any of the usual with the exception of City.
 
adam cool dude said:
You are showing me club value which has got nothing to do with what money has been spent on transfers.
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Well thats why i did say revenue in my original post. Revenue & club value. You could afford higher wages and higher transfer fees, you dwarfed other teams during that era. Like, i'm not having a pop though, Fergie was a great manager, i was just alluding to the fact that today's competitiveness is a bit different to previous years
 
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robfosters said:
It has an impact though. Players like Rice are not gonna uproot to Liverpool with the hope of maybe playing champs league one day when they can stay put and move to a London club that can guarantee it straight away.

I feel there’s been a big shift this year and in the future top 4 is far from guaranteed for any of the usual with the exception of City.
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I used Rice as an example. You could use any other young and potentially world class midfielder in his place
 
robfosters said:
It has an impact though. Players like Rice are not gonna uproot to Liverpool with the hope of maybe playing champs league one day when they can stay put and move to a London club that can guarantee it straight away.

I feel there’s been a big shift this year and in the future top 4 is far from guaranteed for any of the usual with the exception of City.
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I think we had this discussion in the transfer thread re Chelsea. If Rice makes a decision on his future based on 1 season then he's a moron. Again, I don't believe we want Rice however any sensible player isn't going to make a career defining decision based on one season. Obviously last season will have an impact on a players decision but they'll also look at the bigger picture.

Other than Liverpool and City over the past 6 years, no sides have been certainties for the CL but it's not stopped all those other clubs signing players, has it?
ThundyCat said:
See I try to be nice, and BOOM you go straight it with a head shot! :mad:
:p:p
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I've got to take any chances I can this season and you're an easy target. Sorry :p
 
Trusty said:
Well thats why i did say revenue in my original post. Revenue & club value. You could afford higher wages and higher transfer fees, you dwarfed other teams during that era. Like, i'm not having a pop though, Fergie was a great manager, i was just alluding to the fact that today's competitiveness is a bit different to previous years
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We rebuilt our stadium with that money, not on wages and massive spending.

Bigpig said:
It's shows you have continued to be one of the top spenders in the league.

Not just spurts here and there.
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It still doesn't. From 95/96 season we were only biggest spenders 99-00 and 2003-2004 and that is accumulative spend since 1991 so is clutching at straws as a successful team will always have a high cumulative spend. Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool spent more in 00's and how many titles did they win? We won 6 of them in that decade.

Newcastle spent a bomb in the 90's and won nothing.
 
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adam cool dude said:
We rebuilt our stadium with that money, not on wages and massive spending.



It still doesn't. From 95/96 season we were only biggest spenders 99-00 and 2003-2004 and that is accumulative spend since 1991 so is clutching at straws as a successful team will always have a high cumulative spend. Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool spent more in 00's and how many titles did they win? We won 5 of them in that decade. Other premier league clubs outspent us in every season from 1990-
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Stop acting poor.

That's Liverpool job
 
adam cool dude said:
It is not about acting poor but people lying that it was all money when the reality is SAF was just the greatest of all time.
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The greatest of all time managed 2 European Cups in how many years?

Taggart was clearly a great manager but you cannot deny that Utd had a big financial advantage up until RA bought Chelsea. I've no idea if your claims re individual seasons is true (I doubt it) but Utd's cumulative net spend on fees and wages from the start of the PL until 2003 was well ahead of anybody else in the League. It was only post RA did Utd have anybody that could compete with them financially.
 
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