How much did Cov spend on transfers in the Premiership years? (3 Viewers)

[biggymania]

Interesting thread from Kieran Maguire charting Premiership spend since the inception:



1992/93 £0.3M (21st highest spend)
1993/94 £0.9M (20th highest spend)
1994/95 £4.8M (11th highest spend)
1995/96 £6.2M (14th highest spend)
1996/97 £5.6M (16th highest spend)
1997/98 £5.3M (17th highest spend)
1998/99 £12.7M (10th highest spend)
1999/00 £17.3M (9th highest spend)
2000/01 £13.4M (12th highest spend)

For a total of £66.5M spent on transfers in the Premiership Years.

 

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[shmmeee]

What about 99/00 and 00/01?

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

Interesting thread from Kieran Maguire charting Premiership spend since the inception:



1992/93 £0.3M (21st highest spend)
1993/94 £0.9M (20th highest spend)
1994/95 £4.8M (11th highest spend)
1995/96 £6.2M (14th highest spend)
1996/97 £5.6M (16th highest spend)
1997/98 £5.3M (17th highest spend)
1998/99 £12.7M (10th highest spend)

For a total of £35.8M spent on transfers in the Premiership Years.

Shows how out of control the money in football is getting that we spent more in one season in the second tier than we did in 7 in the top flight 30 years ago.

 

[HadjiChippo]

Those tables really show how much Abramovich/Chelsea completely decimated and overinflated the transfer market when he took over. Insane spending compared to everyone else in those seasons.

 

[torchomatic]

It was wages that did us and ultimately led to us having forsake ownership of the Arena. Weren't we paying Dublin £20K a week or something. Madness.

 

[Evo1883]

To be fair , it was 23-31 years ago

 

[biggymania]

What about 99/00 and 00/01?

I'm an idiot, I missed them:

1999/00 £17.3M (9th highest spend)
2000/01 £13.4M (12th highest spend)

I'll update the original post

 

[The Great Eastern]

It was wages that did us and ultimately led to us having forsake ownership of the Arena. Weren't we paying Dublin £20K a week or something. Madness.

Think Macca was on £28k p.w...

 

[torchomatic]

Think Macca was on £28k p.w...

Ah yes, forgot about him too. Double madness!

 

[SwanLane]

To be fair, you can tell when big Ron took over when you look at those net spend figures.

 

[Saddlebrains]

Interesting thread from Kieran Maguire charting Premiership spend since the inception:



1992/93 £0.3M (21st highest spend)
1993/94 £0.9M (20th highest spend)
1994/95 £4.8M (11th highest spend)
1995/96 £6.2M (14th highest spend)
1996/97 £5.6M (16th highest spend)
1997/98 £5.3M (17th highest spend)
1998/99 £12.7M (10th highest spend)
1999/00 £17.3M (9th highest spend)
2000/01 £13.4M (12th highest spend)

For a total of £66.5M spent on transfers in the Premiership Years.

Metal we spent 13.4 million on shite the year we went down

 

[Sbarcher]

Not sure exactly when Terry Butcher managed us but seem to recall he played a canny game. Got salary as a player then a second one when he became manager.

 

[blunted]

Bad move giving Ron Atkinson any money. He spent a bomb and we were no better.

 

[ovduk78]

Not sure exactly when Terry Butcher managed us but seem to recall he played a canny game. Got salary as a player then a second one when he became manager.

He was employed as a player manager and after playing about 5 games in about a season he decided he couldn't carry on playing because of injury. I think we tried to renegotiate his contract to manager only & he wasn't happy and ended up getting sacked.

 

[Terry_dactyl]

He was employed as a player manager and after playing about 5 games in about a season he decided he couldn't carry on playing because of injury. I think we tried to renegotiate his contract to manager only & he wasn't happy and ended up getting sacked.

He was shite.

Although I remember his first game for us and he did a headed clearance from our penalty area to about the half way line.

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

He was shite.

Although I remember his first game for us and he did a headed clearance from our penalty area to about the half way line.

Butcher as a manager was garbage .

 

[SwanLane]

He was employed as a player manager and after playing about 5 games in about a season he decided he couldn't carry on playing because of injury. I think we tried to renegotiate his contract to manager only & he wasn't happy and ended up getting sacked.

He was saying that he had to quit because his knee was shot. Then after being sacked, played over 40 games for Sunderland of all people.

 

[Terry_dactyl]

Butcher as a manager was garbage .

Yep. If anything his record got worse after leaving us.

 

[ovduk78]

He was shite.

Although I remember his first game for us and he did a headed clearance from our penalty area to about the half way line.

His debut was against Liverpool and he kicked the ball out of Ogrizovic's hands and straight to Beardsley for the only goal of the game!

 

[Terry_dactyl]

His debut was against Liverpool and he kicked the ball out of Ogrizovic's hands and straight to Beardsley for the only goal of the game!

Ha! I don’t remember that! I do remember us losing.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Metal we spent 13.4 million on shite the year we went down

Nearly half of which was on the total cock Bellamy