Monday Football (inc Tuesday & Wednesday)

[Zammo]

Malaga 2 up at Real Madrid at half-time. Should be a top second half (SS2).

[TheMaraudingDog]

£85m for Carroll, Adam, Henderson & Downing.

KKKing KKKenny

[1871 Royal]

Jordan Henderson is the biggest joke signing for me, followed closely by Downing.

[Compo's Hat]

Spurs a bit lucky to sneak a 1-0 win against a well organised West Brom side.

[No Fixed Abode]

£85m for Carroll, Adam, Henderson & Downing.

KKKing KKKenny

Got to laugh at King Kenny for pleading poverty in a pre match interview. Well Kenny, you're the 2nd biggest spending club behind City in the last 5-6 years and you were soundly beaten tonight.

[Zammo]

Malaga 2 up at Real Madrid at half-time. Should be a top second half (SS2).

Two Madrid goals in a minute. Here we go !

[Simon's Church]

3-2 now. 3 goals in 10 minutes for Madrid.

[sandman]

How did Benzema miss that?

[soggy biscuit]

£85m for Carroll, Adam, Henderson & Downing.

KKKing KKKenny

Got to laugh at King Kenny for pleading poverty in a pre match interview. Well Kenny, you're the 2nd biggest spending club behind City in the last 5-6 years and you were soundly beaten tonight.

I wonder why you chose 5-6 years?

[TheMaraudingDog]

Cos you're not going to win anything with money spent 6-10 years ago

[Bandini]

Cos you're not going to win anything with money spent 6-10 years ago

That does seem true in Chelsea's case.

[No Fixed Abode]

Cos you're not going to win anything with money spent 6-10 years ago

That does seem true in Chelsea's case.

erm - we did the double in 2009/2010

[No Fixed Abode]

£85m for Carroll, Adam, Henderson & Downing.

KKKing KKKenny

Got to laugh at King Kenny for pleading poverty in a pre match interview. Well Kenny, you're the 2nd biggest spending club behind City in the last 5-6 years and you were soundly beaten tonight.

I wonder why you chose 5-6 years?

Because you would have thought by spending all that money in that period, Liverpool would have won something by now.

[Bandini]

Cos you're not going to win anything with money spent 6-10 years ago

That does seem true in Chelsea's case.

erm - we did the double in 2009/2010

2009/10 minus 6 = 2003/04

So let's have a look at transfer spending after that season. To take the first link I found: spending in 2005 - 2006


2006

Aug Ashley Cole Arsenal £5m
Aug Khalid Boulahrouz Hamburg £7m
June John Mikel Obi Lyn £16m
May Ben Sahar Hapoel Tev Aviv £320,000
May Andrei Shevchenko AC Milan £30.8m
May Salomon Kalou Feyenoord £8m
May Michael Ballack Bayern Munich Free

2005

Aug Michael Essien Lyon £24.4m
July Shaun Wright-Phillips Manchester City £21m
July Lassana Diarra Le Havre £1m
July Scott Sinclair Bristol Rovers £160,000
June Asier Del Horno Athletic Bilbao £8m
Jan Jiri Jarosik CSKA Moscow £4.83m
July Ricardo Carvalho Porto £19.85m
July Didier Drogba Marseille £24m
July Tiago Benfica £8m
July Mateja Kezman PSV Eindhoven £5m
July Paulo Ferreira Porto £13.2m
July Arjen Robben PSV Eindhoven £12m

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... elsea.html

[TBM]

Aug Ashley Cole Arsenal £5m

I still dont understand why he went for so little - i know it was the last year of his contract, but still........at least double that, surely!?

[Big Foot]

Looking back at that list reminds me of some of the crap Chelsea have bought - Del Horno and Jarosik being 2 good examples.

[Bandini]

Aug Ashley Cole Arsenal £5m

I still dont understand why he went for so little - i know it was the last year of his contract, but still........at least double that, surely!?

I know, it seems crazy.

[soggy biscuit]

Aug Ashley Cole Arsenal £5m

I still dont understand why he went for so little - i know it was the last year of his contract, but still........at least double that, surely!?

I know, it seems crazy.

I nearly crashed my car when I heard how little he had gone for

[who are ya?]

I've only managed to pick 8 decent signings out of that list of 19.

[Simon's Church]

Lindegaard starts again for Utd apparently. I don't understand the decision process in it, surely Fergie should have picked his number 1 by now and stuck with him, the rotation can't be doing either of them any good.