How much did Cov spend on transfers in the Premiership years? (1 Viewer)

biggymania · Aug 22, 2024

Interesting thread from Kieran Maguire charting Premiership spend since the inception:

1992/93 £0.3M (21st highest spend)
1993/94 £0.9M (20th highest spend)
1994/95 £4.8M (11th highest spend)
1995/96 £6.2M (14th highest spend)
1996/97 £5.6M (16th highest spend)
1997/98 £5.3M (17th highest spend)
1998/99 £12.7M (10th highest spend)
1999/00 £17.3M (9th highest spend)
2000/01 £13.4M (12th highest spend)

For a total of £66.5M spent on transfers in the Premiership Years.

shmmeee · Aug 22, 2024

What about 99/00 and 00/01?

SeaSeeEffCee · Aug 22, 2024

biggymania said:
Interesting thread from Kieran Maguire charting Premiership spend since the inception:

1992/93 £0.3M (21st highest spend)
1993/94 £0.9M (20th highest spend)
1994/95 £4.8M (11th highest spend)
1995/96 £6.2M (14th highest spend)
1996/97 £5.6M (16th highest spend)
1997/98 £5.3M (17th highest spend)
1998/99 £12.7M (10th highest spend)

For a total of £35.8M spent on transfers in the Premiership Years.

Shows how out of control the money in football is getting that we spent more in one season in the second tier than we did in 7 in the top flight 30 years ago.

HadjiChippo · Aug 22, 2024

Those tables really show how much Abramovich/Chelsea completely decimated and overinflated the transfer market when he took over. Insane spending compared to everyone else in those seasons.

torchomatic · Aug 22, 2024

It was wages that did us and ultimately led to us having forsake ownership of the Arena. Weren't we paying Dublin £20K a week or something. Madness.

Evo1883 · Aug 22, 2024

To be fair , it was 23-31 years ago

biggymania · Aug 22, 2024

shmmeee said:
What about 99/00 and 00/01?

I'm an idiot, I missed them:

1999/00 £17.3M (9th highest spend)
2000/01 £13.4M (12th highest spend)

I'll update the original post

The Great Eastern · Aug 22, 2024

torchomatic said:
It was wages that did us and ultimately led to us having forsake ownership of the Arena. Weren't we paying Dublin £20K a week or something. Madness.

Think Macca was on £28k p.w...

torchomatic · Aug 22, 2024

The Great Eastern said:
Think Macca was on £28k p.w...

Ah yes, forgot about him too. Double madness!

SwanLane · Aug 22, 2024

To be fair, you can tell when big Ron took over when you look at those net spend figures.

Saddlebrains · Aug 22, 2024

biggymania said:
Interesting thread from Kieran Maguire charting Premiership spend since the inception:

1992/93 £0.3M (21st highest spend)
1993/94 £0.9M (20th highest spend)
1994/95 £4.8M (11th highest spend)
1995/96 £6.2M (14th highest spend)
1996/97 £5.6M (16th highest spend)
1997/98 £5.3M (17th highest spend)
1998/99 £12.7M (10th highest spend)
1999/00 £17.3M (9th highest spend)
2000/01 £13.4M (12th highest spend)

For a total of £66.5M spent on transfers in the Premiership Years.

Metal we spent 13.4 million on shite the year we went down

Sbarcher · Aug 22, 2024

Not sure exactly when Terry Butcher managed us but seem to recall he played a canny game. Got salary as a player then a second one when he became manager.

blunted · Aug 22, 2024

Bad move giving Ron Atkinson any money. He spent a bomb and we were no better.

ovduk78 · Aug 22, 2024

Sbarcher said:
Not sure exactly when Terry Butcher managed us but seem to recall he played a canny game. Got salary as a player then a second one when he became manager.

He was employed as a player manager and after playing about 5 games in about a season he decided he couldn't carry on playing because of injury. I think we tried to renegotiate his contract to manager only & he wasn't happy and ended up getting sacked.

Terry_dactyl · Aug 22, 2024

ovduk78 said:
He was employed as a player manager and after playing about 5 games in about a season he decided he couldn't carry on playing because of injury. I think we tried to renegotiate his contract to manager only & he wasn't happy and ended up getting sacked.

He was shite.

Although I remember his first game for us and he did a headed clearance from our penalty area to about the half way line.

Skyblue Bangkok · Aug 22, 2024

Terry_dactyl said:
He was shite.

Although I remember his first game for us and he did a headed clearance from our penalty area to about the half way line.

Butcher as a manager was garbage .

SwanLane · Aug 22, 2024

ovduk78 said:
He was employed as a player manager and after playing about 5 games in about a season he decided he couldn't carry on playing because of injury. I think we tried to renegotiate his contract to manager only & he wasn't happy and ended up getting sacked.

He was saying that he had to quit because his knee was shot. Then after being sacked, played over 40 games for Sunderland of all people.

Terry_dactyl · Aug 22, 2024

Skyblue Bangkok said:
Butcher as a manager was garbage .

Yep. If anything his record got worse after leaving us.

ovduk78 · Aug 22, 2024

Terry_dactyl said:
He was shite.

Although I remember his first game for us and he did a headed clearance from our penalty area to about the half way line.

His debut was against Liverpool and he kicked the ball out of Ogrizovic's hands and straight to Beardsley for the only goal of the game!

Terry_dactyl · Aug 22, 2024

ovduk78 said:
His debut was against Liverpool and he kicked the ball out of Ogrizovic's hands and straight to Beardsley for the only goal of the game!

Ha! I don’t remember that! I do remember us losing.

Brighton Sky Blue · Aug 22, 2024

Saddlebrains said:
Metal we spent 13.4 million on shite the year we went down

Nearly half of which was on the total cock Bellamy

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