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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I usually just lurk around these parts and saw that an argument had broken out a couple days back about Liverpool and Man U and spending in comparison to trophies won. While somebody at the goal.com forums today put together a little chart that I figured fit in this thread.
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A couple things. Goal.com is terrible. It makes Eklund look like Darren Dreger and Bob McKenzie put together.
The 2nd thing is that those tables are wrong. Most clubs, especially English ones don't post transfer spending on their websites. I think I've seen maybe 3 figures ever posted on lfc.tv. He claims to have read the clubs figures for 2009-2010 but the problem is that those haven't been officially released, so where is he getting that information?
He began by saying he used the clubs accounts from 1990-2010. He then tweeted that it was until 2009. His latest has been until 2008. He said he filled in the last few years with "websites." Keep in mind that these websites have vastly different spending amounts across the board and that some are so far off it's laughable.
He then states that he's happy to show proof of this from these accounts, he now will not link anybody, to what should be(if he can access it) public knowledge.
He says that all other figures are WRONG. How can he say that when he hasn't even used official documents? Then when people question him, he tells them they have their head in the sand.
Read his twitter, it's amusing how much he's back-pedalled.
Oh and FYI, his past "figures" have been out a while, nobody takes them seriously.
EDIT: one of his latest tweets: For example: in 03-4, MU spent 50.6m; LFC 19m Adjust those figures for inflation and the difference between the two will be the same.
The difference between two numbers when accounting for inflation is never going to be the same.
Seems like the guy that's a genius at crunching numbers can't deduce the easiest of things....