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Old 10-22-2010, 04:11 PM   #350
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
You're leaving out the costs incurred while those players were on the books. If I but a car for $20,000 and sell it 2 years later for $22,000 that appears to be a profit, but if it cost me $5,000/year to keep it around I've actually lost $8,000.

You can't really pin the blame without knowing who was given control over what, but the fact those palyers were sold for more only tells a small part of the story.
true but a 35m pound profit on players is likely close to what their wages were per season when he was there, none of the players he brought in were big names so their wages wouldn't have been high. The most expensive players brought in were Peter Crouch and Jermaine Defoe, neither of whom have high wages are Spurs and they certainly got raises from when they were at Pompey.

And pompey's wages have always been below the premier league average (which for the last time it was released was 58m pounds, although the average is brought up by Chelsea, United, and Arsenal all being above 100m)

I was just trying to point out that Harry wasn't to blame for their current state, no one knows who was, but it certainly wasn't him
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