Originally Posted by Hank
True Hank - but what about the arrogance of that T shirt? Actually I love the slight dig at the amount of money we've spent, it's as if they think their sides have been built around homegrown players. £483,150,000. That's how much United have spent on players in the Premiership era.
£7m Andy Cole 1994
£12.6m Dwight Yorke 1998
£10.75m Jaap Stam 1998
£7.8m Fabien Barthez 1999
£19m Ruud Van Nistelrooy 2001
£6.9m Diego Forlan 2001
£33m Rio Ferdinand 2002
£6.9m Gabriel Henize 2003
£7m Alan Smith 2003
£12.82m Louis Saha 2003
£12.2m Cristiano Ronaldo 2003
£27m Wayne Rooney 2004
£7m Nemanja Vidiv 2005
£18.6m Michael Carrick 2006
£9m Carlos Tevez 2007
£13.5m Nani 2007
£15m Anderson 2007
£17m Owen Hargreaves 2007
£30.75m Dimitar Berbatov 2008
£16m Antonio Valencia 2009
£10m Chris Smalling 2010
£17m Phil Jones 2011
£17m Ashley Young 2011
£18.9m David De Gea 2011
That's just a selection of players, some of whom I'd completely forgotten cost so much, I mean £17m for Hargreaves, £18.6m for Carrick, £12.82m for Saha, £12.6m for Dwight Yorke, and that's in 1998 so with 14 years of football based inflation you can likely double that, at least, in real terms. United, since the Premier League began, have spent huge sums of money to be at the very top, it's hypocritical in the extreme for them to suggest money doesn't buy success. It does, and has, in Trafford. :sneaky:
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