Interesting Roy Keane fact

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In 2007/08 Keane spent 43.8 million, which is way more than Moyes got to spend in this close season, not allowing for the Sky money inflation!

Kind of puts the 'massive outlay' in the summer in perspective.


Keane's signings in full:
2006/07
Liam Miller. Free. Manchester United
Dwight Yorke. Free. Sydney FC
Graham Kavanagh. £500,000. Wigan
Stanislav Varga. £550,000. Celtic
David Connolly. £1.4m. Wigan
Ross Wallace. £550,000. Celtic
Lewis Nyatanga. Loan. Derby
Jonny Evans. Loan. Manchester United
Marton Fulop. £500,000. Tottenham
Carlos Edwards. £1.4m. Luton
Anthony Stokes. £2m. Arsenal
Danny Simpson. Loan. Manchester United
Stern John. Undisclosed. Coventry
2007/8
Craig Gordon. £9m. Hearts
Paul McShane. £2.5m. West Brom
Dickson Etuhu. £1.5m. Norwich
Kieran Richardson. £5.5m. Manchester United
Michael Chopra. £5m. Cardiff
Greg Halford. £2.5m. Reading
Roy O'Donovan. Undisclosed. Cork City
Russell Anderson. £1m. Aberdeen
Danny Higginbotham. £2.5m. Stoke
Kenwyne Jones. £6m. Southampton
Ian Harte. Free. Levante
Andrew Cole. Free. Portsmouth
Phil Bardsley. £2m. Manchester United
Rade Prica. £2m. FC Aalborg
Andy Reed. £4m. Charlton
Yves Mvoto-Mvoto. £300,000. Paris Saint-Germain
2008/9
Nick Colgan. Free. Ipswich
George McCartney. £4.5m. West Ham
Anton Ferdinand. £8m. West Ham
Pascal Chimbonda. Undisclosed. Tottenham
Teemu Tainio. £4m. Tottenham
Steed Malbranque. £5m. Tottenham
David Meyler. Undisclosed. Cork City
Djibril Cisse. Loan. Marseilles
David Healy. £1.2m. Fulham
El-Hadji Diouf. £2.5m. Bolton
 


But if Roy could not succeed with that sort of cash, why do some think he can be some sort of white knight figure who saves the season?

When will you be posting the interesting fact?
Thought Roy deserved his own thread, as many were shouting him out as a potential saviour
 
But if Roy could not succeed with that sort of cash, why do some think he can be some sort of white knight figure who saves the season?


Thought Roy deserved his own thread, as many were shouting him out as a potential saviour

Tbf I'd say Roy did succeed. We're an established :lol: prem club now but back then we had been relegated with a record lows points haul. He needed to build a squad to get us up and a squad to keep us up.

He successfully did both.

Love Keano me.
 
Roy was trying to establish his newly promoted side and get among the bigger premier teams.

Moyes took over perennial relegation battlers, mid pre-season, and was scrabbling around for bargains to add to a threadbare squad
Or moyes took over a team that had took 27 points from their final 19 games and had 7 weeks to try and improve the team with around 30 million to spend.
 
Or moyes took over a team that had took 27 points from their final 19 games and had 7 weeks to try and improve the team with around 30 million to spend.
And which finished two points above relegation in 17th!

Wonder how the 30 million is structure - all up front, over several years, depending on performance, etc.

Also, if it is true the team is putting relegation clauses in contracts, that makes it even tougher to draw players. Who wants their wages halved after a bad season?
 
And which finished two points above relegation in 17th!

Wonder how the 30 million is structure - all up front, over several years, depending on performance, etc.

Also, if it is true the team is putting relegation clauses in contracts, that makes it even tougher to draw players. Who wants their wages halved after a bad season?

Every club outside of the top 6 will have relegation clauses.

Except the mags, it would seem.
 
And which finished two points above relegation in 17th!

Wonder how the 30 million is structure - all up front, over several years, depending on performance, etc.

Also, if it is true the team is putting relegation clauses in contracts, that makes it even tougher to draw players. Who wants their wages halved after a bad season?
You do realise that the majority of transfer fees are spread out over a few years for all clubs?
 
You do realise that the majority of transfer fees are spread out over a few years for all clubs?
Yeah, but often the quoted 'figures' only come into effect if a player fulfills certain criteria, such as number of appearances, etc, so the supposed 30 million may be much lower

The same time Ranieri took over at relegation strugglers Leicester then....
One swallow does not a summer make, or somesuch nonsense!

That fact just highlights the clubs biggest problem for years as being not spending money, but spending money buying loads of shite for small fees.
To be fair, in those days the fees for good players were much lower
 
Yeah, but often the quoted 'figures' only come into effect if a player fulfills certain criteria, such as number of appearances, etc, so the supposed 30 million may be much lower


One swallow does not a summer make, or somesuch nonsense!
Likewise the £43.8 Keane spent
 
Indeed the current situation reminds me of Coventry City, who for years hung on by the skin of their teeth......

While Sunderland signed all those players, Moyes over at Everton signed:


17 March 2007 FW England Lukas Jutkiewicz England Swindon Town Undisclosed
4 July 2007 DF England Phil Jagielka England Sheffield United £4m
7 August 2007 DF England Leighton Baines England Wigan Athletic £5m
21 August 2007 GK Germany Stefan Wessels Germany 1. FC Köln Free
29 August 2007 FW Nigeria Yakubu Aiyegbeni England Middlesbrough £11.25m
14 January 2008 MF England Dan Gosling England Plymouth Argyle £1m

Baines and Jagielka are still first teamers......
 
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Tbf I'd say Roy did succeed. We're an established :lol: prem club now but back then we had been relegated with a record lows points haul. He needed to build a squad to get us up and a squad to keep us up.

He successfully did both.

Love Keano me.

Bring him home
 
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