As already
discussed by Andy C we must consider which of Manchester United's premiership victories was the best. An interesting article in the Grauniad
gives us statistics on how much each club that won the Premiership spent in the preceding Summer. As you can see below, in 95-96 United spent nothing. In fact they
sold Paul Ince, Mark Hughes and Andrei Kanchelskis and still won. This year was a triumph, but that was the most impressive.
| Season |
Champions |
Spent |
Players Bought |
| 1995-96 |
Manchester United |
0 |
|
| 1992-93 |
Manchester United |
£1.1m |
Pat McGibbon, Dion Dublin |
| 1999-2000 |
Manchester United |
£1.5m |
Quinton Fortune |
| 2003-04 |
Arsenal |
£2.5m |
Cesc Fábregas, Phillipe Senderos, Jens
Lehmann , Gaël Clichy |
| 1993-94 |
Manchester United |
£3.75m |
Roy Keane |
| 1994-95 |
Blackburn |
£5.3m |
Chris Sutton, Robbie Slater |
| 1996-97 |
Manchester United |
£7.5m |
Raimond van der Gouw, Ronny Johnsen, Ole Gunnar
Solskjaer, Karel Poborsky, Jordi Cruyff |
| 2000-01 |
Manchester United |
£7.8m |
Fabien Barthez |
| 1997-98 |
Arsenal |
£14.55m |
Alex Manninger, Manu Petit, Giles Grimandi, Luis Boa
Morte, Alberto Mendez, Marc Overmars, Lee Canoville, Christopher Wreh |
| 2006-07 |
Manchester United |
£18.6m |
Michael Carrick |
| 2001-02 |
Arsenal |
£22.25m |
Francis Jeffers, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Sol
Campbell, Richard Wright |
| 1998-99 |
Manchester United |
£27.75m |
Jaap Stam, Jesper Blomqvist, Dwight Yorke |
| 2002-03 |
Manchester United |
£30m |
Rio Ferdinand |
| 2005-06 |
Chelsea |
£53.4m |
Asier del Horno, Scott Sinclair, Lassana Diarra, Shaun
Wright-Phillips, Michael Essien |
| 2004-05 |
Chelsea |
£89.05m |
Petr Cech, Arjen Robben, Paulo Ferreira, Mateja Kezman,
Didier Drogba, Tiago, Ricardo Carvalho |
Interesting.
ReplyDeleteArsenal won the title despite having Jeffers in the squad.