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Clarets total spend?

Post by piston broke » Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:48 pm

There was a figure being bandied around, a couple of years ago, that our total transfer spend, in club history, was less than Manure had spent on Pogba.
Can anybody remember what that figure was or, even better, what our historical spend is now.

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Re: Clarets total spend?

Post by MACCA » Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:59 pm

piston broke wrote:There was a figure being bandied around, a couple of years ago, that our total transfer spend, in club history, was less than Manure had spent on Pogba.
Can anybody remember what that figure was or, even better, what our historical spend is now.
Yes it was some point in the summer of 2017, we'd only spent something like 70m in our complete history I think.

Way out of date now though that stat, we are pushing towards the 71m mark nowadays...
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Post by Royboyclaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:08 pm

piston broke wrote:There was a figure being bandied around, a couple of years ago, that our total transfer spend, in club history, was less than Manure had spent on Pogba.
Can anybody remember what that figure was or, even better, what our historical spend is now.
First reaction to that is that, if United paid £98m for Pogba, then the two figures will be very similar.

We've been around now some 136 years but half of that total spend will have occured in the last 4 seasons.
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Re: Clarets total spend?

Post by Holtyclaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:15 pm

It was also mentioned when di Maria made his Utd debut at t’turf a couple more years ago.
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Re: Clarets total spend?

Post by Aclaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:17 pm

It was 2014 when Utd bought Di Maria for £60 million, we had spent £45 million in our history at that point.
We've splashed plenty since 2014 !!
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Re: Clarets total spend?

Post by RalphCoatesComb » Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:22 pm

Holtyclaret wrote:It was also mentioned when di Maria made his Utd debut at t’turf a couple more years ago.
A cracking example of how to waste £60m !
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Re: Clarets total spend?

Post by Royboyclaret » Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:27 pm

Difficult to say with absolute certainty, mainly due to the fact that many of Burnley incoming transfers are undisclosed fees, but I suspect that the £11m we paid for Vydra will mean we have now exceeded the £98m that United paid for Pogba.

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Post by Chester Perry » Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:39 pm

Think it was earlier than that Roy - off the top of my head in the last 3 years
Wood £15m
Gibson £15m
Vydra £11m
Hendrick £10m
Cork £10m
Defour £8m
Wells £5m
Taylor £4m
Westwood
Hart
Lennon
Bardsley
JBG
Walters
Pope
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Re: Clarets total spend?

Post by piston broke » Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:40 pm

Cheers guys.

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