mkuu, mi naona hata hawa "mbolea" wenye hili jukwaa lao nao walitaka kununua ligi, sema ni vile Guardiola kamzidi akili mwenziwe technically and tactically.
mkuu si unajua kuwa the 2 most expensive players kwenye EPL kwa sasa wanachezea "mbolea" na ni Moaning Hole ndiye aliwanunua?
Tukiwaambia vichwani hamma kitu mnakasirika
Huyo jamaa liverpool alikuwa sahihi ila wewe tatizo lako unaongozwa na chuki si mpira.
The Premier League financial arms race has seen clubs spend hundreds of millions of pounds bolstering every position on their respective starting lineups.
While the more expensive fees have tended to be for attacking players, Manchester City have changed the game somewhat buy buying two £50m+ full-backs and making Ederson Moraes the second most expensive goalkeeper of all time.
Rather than look at the cost of the squads themselves (because Man City have already ridden that horse straight to Moneytown), how much would each of the Premier League top six’s preferred starting eleven cost?
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Manchester City: Ederson Moraes (£34m); Kyle Walker (£50m), Vincent Kompany (£6m) , Nicolas Otamendi (£28.5m) , Benjamin Mendy (£52m); Ilkay Gundogan (£20m), Kevin De Bruyne (£55m), David Silva (£25m), Leroy Sane (£37m), Gabriel Jesus (£33m), Sergio Aguero (£35m)
Leaving aside the monstrous cost of their squad as a whole (John Stones and Eliaquim Mangala being worth a combined £85m etc.), the £6m signing of Vincent Kompany sticks out like a sore thumb. Nearly a decade and piles of money later, the Belgian is still their best defender (when fit) and starts ahead of players that cost seven times what he did.
Total: £375.5m
Manchester United: David De Gea (£17.8m), Antonio Valencia (£16m), Eric Bailly (£30m), Victor Lindelof (£31m), Daley Blind (£13.8m), Nemanja Matic (£40m), Paul Pogba (£89m), Ander Herrera (£30m), Henrikh Mkhitaryan (£27m), Marcus Rashford (£0), Romelu Lukaku (£75m)
Man United have really upped their spending game in the post-Ferguson era, building what became most expensive squad ever assembled last season. They have invested almost £150m in the team again this summer, and that figure will rise further next year if/when Mourinho decides he needs new full backs.
Total: £369.6m
Chelsea: Thibaut Courtois (£8m) ; Cesar Azpilicueta
(7m) , David Luiz (£32m) , Antonio Rudiger (£29m) ; Victor Moses (£10m) , N’Golo Kante (£32m) , Tiemoue Bayayoko (£40m) , Marcos Alonso (£24m) ; Pedro
(£21m) , Eden Hazard (£32m) ; Alvaro Morata (£58m)
Assuming Rudiger starts ahead of Cahill, Chelsea under Antonio Conte have fully embraced the “expensive defender” model, with a pair of bargains in the form of Thibaut Courtois and Cesar Azpilicueta. With bench options Cesc Fabregas and Michy Batshuayi costing around £60m between them and £32m striker Diego Costa nowhere to be seen the squad is an expensive one, but the starting eleven rounds out as:
Total: £293m
Arsenal: Petr Cech (£10m), Laurent Koscielny (£8.5m), Shkodran Mustafi (£35m), Nacho Monreal (£8.3m), Hector Bellerin (£0m), Sead Kolasinac (£0m), Aaron Ramsey (£4.8m), Granit Xhaka (£35m), Mesut Ozil (£42.5m), Alexis Sanchez (£31.7m), Alexandre Lacazette (£46.5m)
Having been a reluctant spender for years, Arsene Wenger has finally conceded that some players just cost that bit more. The £35m signing of Mustafi last season started well enough before dipping a bit, and Wenger has resisted the calls to trop tens of millions in all parts of the squad. The free transfer signing of Kolasinac and club record deal for Alexandre Lacazetter are the sum total (unless Monaco’s Thomas Lemar joins in the next three weeks).
Total: £222.3
Liverpool: Simon Mignolet (£9m), Nathaniel Clyne (£12.5m), Joel Matip (£0) , Dejan Lovren (£20m) , Andrew Robertson (£8m), Jordan Henderson (£15m), Philippe Coutinho (£8.5m), Adam Lallana (£25m), Mohamed Salah (£36.9m), Sadio Mane (£34m), Roberto Firmino (£29m)
Should a deal be reached for Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk, then this lineup will be about £50m more expensive and have a lot less Dejan Lovren in it, but for now, both he and Joel Matip are still Jurgen Klopp’s first-choice pairing. This also assumes that Andrew Robertson will be the first-choice left-back and that Philippe Coutinho will be staying at Anfield.
Total: £197.9m
Tottenham Hotspur: Hugo Lloris (£12m) , Kieran Trippier (£3.5m) , Toby Alderweireld (£11.5m) , Jan Vertonghen (£9,5m) , Danny Rose (£1m) , Eric Dier
(£4m) , Victor Wanyama (£11m) , Son Heung-min
(£22m) , Dele Alli (£5m) , Christian Eriksen (£11m) , Harry Kane
Building a Premier League title challenging team for less than half of what Neymar cost (and only twice more than the fee received for Kyle Walker) is highly impressive from Pochettino, and while last season’s expensive signings were largely a disappointment and only one of them is a guaranteed starter, it actually only serves to make the starting lineup look even more impressive in comparison.
Total: £90.5m