I brought up a key point about how signings could be compared. Signings we made during the summer against the signings Chelsea did during the summer. And yes, you can compare them, hence why I brought it up.
You were banging on about signings made close to a decade ago, which had no relevance whatsoever. You were talking about signings that happened so long ago, they signed, played, and left the club many years ago.
If you call that a rant, you are quite a softy.
I weren't the one comparing Cech (signed in 04) to Mignolet (signed in 13). Or comparing Ivanovic (signed in 08) to Sakho (signed in 13). When the signings he mentioned that were at the same time (Balotelli to Remy and Enrique to the Spanish full back fella) I said, Chelsea made the better deal. However yhe signings I suggested were all within a reasonable time scale of each other and in each case, we got the better deal. Torres in 2011, Suarez and Sturridge in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Willian in 2013, Coutinho in 2013. Mikel, who signed in 2006, to Lucas, who signed in 2007.
That's why it's pointless because every team will get better deals over any other given side. Every team makes expensive flops, every team gets absolute bargains.
If you're going to do the pointless task of comparing signings, make them at a reasonable time scale. As I stated, Cech was a record for a goalkeeper by a British club, nearly ten years before we bought Mignolet. That shows why it's pointless because of the near decade in between the signings. The amount of time in between makes it a daft comparison because of how much transfers have increased over time.
It's like comparing us signing McMahon in 85 McAteer in 95 to bringing in Sissoko in 05 to bringing in Can in 14. McMahon is head and shoulders the better player but easily cost less because the time of the deal, transfer fees were on a much lower scale therefore actually making the comparison of fee, yet another F***ing pointless exercise.
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