Around 20% of Wenger's spending came the year after Ferguson left.

Moreover, these stats, by themselves, are quite pointless. They'd only make sense if you add annual wages of the teams to them, adjust transfer fees for inflation and then normalize the number for number years at a top flight team.

Even then, other factors like team quality/age at arrival etc would play a role.

Biggus wrote:

Wenger has nearly spent as much as Ferguson. 😆

Fergie didn't manage for all 10 years of it though.

It seems that it really irks him that Wenger is well respected and generally liked by many, he must doubt himself on some level given this constant need of his to highlight Arsene's failings.

No matter what he wins himself he just can't stop worrying about Wenger. He really is the voyeur.

Courtesy of Geoff Arsenal, the tale of José's calculator...
Could it be that Mou's a little on the remedial side when it comes to simple maths?
Maybe that's why he so hates Wenger? 


[size=medium]That's assuming of course that Geoff got the figures right... 🙂[/size]

ESPN had a piece on Moron's math, and they too used transfermarkt as the source. Was prettier than that chart, only for the last 3 years instead of 4, but the end result is the same - Chelsea has spent more than us. Manc clubs are top, then Brentan's Liverpool, Chelsea, then us. Didn't bother posting it because we already know Moron is wrong and a massive idiot.

Mourinho's just playing the underdog card. It's his trademark, along with spending vast sums of money at every club he's been at since he left Portugal. He's the first to portray him and his team as the victim, even when he managed Real fucking Madrid.

In the past week alone he's had a go at United and Arsenal - two clubs that, even if they did decide to spend more than Chelsea, have done so in a reasonable and self-sustaining manner.

The best manager around but there's no one I'd like to see get headbutted more than him.

y va marquer wrote:

It seems that it really irks him that Wenger is well respected and generally liked by many, he must doubt himself on some level given this constant need of his to highlight Arsene's failings.

pretty much. wenger's job security and the sensible way arsenal are run really tweak his little man syndrome. credit to him and cesc for making me despise chelsea again after i'd stopped caring for a while there. look at this comment about benitez

“And for her also to think about me and to speak about me, I think she needs to occupy her time, and if she takes care of her husband’s diet she will have less time to speak about me.”

lagos wrote:

Finally can we drop this idea that Manu and Arsenal are the only ones who are self sustaining,   We've been spending money of late because we have the money to spend, so clearly if we had a sugar daddy during the drought we would have spent too.  Chelsea spent because they had to spend to get to where they are but for the last few seasons they have been spending within their means.  You require more effort to get to speed than to maintain speed, if we had simply maintained speed when we were at the top, we wouldn't need to spend so much now to catch up.

Why? Chelsea and Man City's whole existence at the top flight is based on winning the sugar daddy lottery. Sure they're net spend is better now but only because they've already invested millions of pounds into the squad already, it's a far cry from what United and Arsenal do.

And we've deliberately turned down the offers of sugar daddy's during drought so I don't think it's clear that we would actively spend someone else's money

Gazza M wrote:

“And for her also to think about me and to speak about me, I think she needs to occupy her time, and if she takes care of her husband’s diet she will have less time to speak about me.”

hahaha jesus, did he really say that?

What on earth are you on about? 😆

Love the club- Hate those who presently run it.
Can you make the distinction and work out what people are on about?

I don't see an expression of hate for anyone in lagos' post, Biggus

He's actually advising that we don't hate anyone and that we hate financial doping instead.

Biggus wrote:

Love the club- Hate those who presently run it.
Can you make the distinction and work out what people are on about?

Seems more like love Mourinho to me.

Or hate Wenger so much as to make ridiculous excuses for shit Chelsea do and try to dismiss everything good Arsene is doing.

We were "holier than thou" in relation to Chelsea and Man City's spending.
We're not now as they have reined in their spending.

It seems like he's both annoyed the fact that people don't recognise Chelsea as self sustaining just like us and United, and at the same time suggesting that we are all financially doping, before finally topping it off with a 'you're just jealous'.