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Originally Posted by Addick
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I dont know what this is supposed to mean, but heres a great article in regards to some of City's spending folly.
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Where his tale differs from those of other misguided signings, however, is in the money and its consequences. Robinho was priced at £32.4 million when City signed him and is paid £160,000 a week; it makes his plight different to those of lesser players. Santos cannot afford him - it has become apparent during his loan spell in his homeland - and nor, by extension, can any other South American club. Indeed, very few can.
If City are unlikely to buy quite as badly again, it is an issue of increasing significance. With each signing, another player loses his place in the pecking order. And if he is a footballer bought, or given a new contract, since Sheikh Mansour's takeover, the chances are he is disproportionately well rewarded.
Take Wayne Bridge (an offer that may soon be made to rival clubs). When he joined from Chelsea in January 2009, the Englishman was reportedly the best-paid full-back in the world. Not that, when most deserving candidates included Maicon, Dani Alves and Philipp Lahm, he could ever be called the planet's best full-back. And now, after the arrival of Aleksandar Kolarov, he is probably not City's first-choice left-back; indeed, factor in Jerome Boateng's World Cup performances there for Germany, he may only be the third in line.
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http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns...ngland&cc=5901
The thing is, you make calculated purchases, bring up the stature of the club and then you work on major signings. City is using an old United trick of just buying players so that other teams cant have them, they get paid a fortune and they just sit around.
I wouldnt want that to happend to Liverpool, and I have little fear that it would, but if you want to be a Big 4 Club, you have to have some serious depth and its something that Liverpool have been lacking for quite some time.
That number there though was just a comparison. For any team to have those kinds of funds at their disposal is unbelievable. You could take a team that is hemhorraging red ink like Barca and make a run at Messi or something just for an example. Not saying that they would or should, but the opportunity is there. It'd be nice to see teams like Real and Barca get the treatment they've been exhibiting on other clubs in return.