No correlation this year between transfer spend and sporting achievement.

[Ash]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/18/tottenham-only-premier-league-club-to-make-transfer-profit-in-past-year

Make of this what you will.

[Ash]

Eight of the 10 bottom-half sides spent more than second-placed Arsenal. Citeh and Newcastle spentloadsa****inmoney but were ****. Spurs made a profit (only side to do so). Saints spent ****-all but did well.

[barrybueno]

Newcastle :hehe: £80m to get relegated, what a piss poorly run pile of **** that club really is.

[redgunamo]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/18/tottenham-only-premier-league-club-to-make-transfer-profit-in-past-year

Make of this what you will.

Yes, it's almost as though money was just an enormous McGuffin all along.

And, yes, your mum is also just an enormous McGuffin, before Berni says it.

[Ash]

Yes, it's almost as though money was just an enormous McGuffin all along.


Well, you can banter off £200m on ****housery as Man City and Newcastle seem to have done. And possibly Man Utd over a longer period. Or you can spend £42m on Mezut Ozil and he's worth every penny. Or would be if we didn't have a lumbering carthorse ahead of him. We might need to spend a few bob on that position.

[redgunamo]

Well, you can banter off £200m on ****housery as Man City and Newcastle seem to have done. And possibly Man Utd over a longer period. Or you can spend £42m on Mezut Ozil and he's worth every penny. Or would be if we didn't have a lumbering carthorse ahead of him. We might need to spend a few bob on that position.

Mesut is probably worth that money, but maybe not to us. Unless we also pick up Jamie Vardy, say, from non-league football for **** all.

That's another strike against us, I suppose; Wenger no longer seems able to pick up cheap, decisive players like some of those those Leicester City chaps, anymore. Kante, Mahrez etc. are classic Wenger signings.

Money seems to have gone to our heads.

[Ash]

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[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

Transfer spend in itself, especially net spend, has never been a useful predictor, at least not unless you take a rolling x year total - which reflects the fact that your multimillion purchased stars will likely play at least a few seasons.

Correlation between wages and points/position is usually a lot tighter.

[redgunamo]

Transfer spend in itself, especially net spend, has never been a useful predictor, at least not unless you take a rolling x year total - which reflects the fact that your multimillion purchased stars will likely play at least a few seasons.

Correlation between wages and points/position is usually a lot tighter.

Yeah. My favourite is the correlation between sporting achievement and good football :-\

[Ash]

Yeah. My favourite is the correlation between sporting achievement and good football :-\

Good football hasn't helped us much with that according to most definitions of achievement.