When you off set the player prices against refinancing Glazerâs debt, merchandise sales and school dinners for everyone I think youâll find the players were virtually free
Thatâs right, football was invented in 1992
Why am I not surprised?
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Man Yoo fans certainly canât complain about the Glazersâ lack of investment in the team, not forgetting Sanchez, Di Maria, Lukaku, Mkhitaryan and other expensive flops over the past few years.
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Bobby Firminho has found space and is now living rent free in your head as well
The advent of the Premier League in 1992, Sky Sports Super Sunday and the Murdoch money was the making of Man U. They won 7 league titles over the first 90 years of their existence from foundation in 1902 up to 1992. At the start of the 1992/93 season, Woolwich (10), Everton (9) were ahead of them on the roll of honour and they were level with Aston Villa (7). 13 titles then in 20 years from 1992/93 onwards.
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The Sky takeover of the game and becoming a well capitalised PLC were the making of Man Utd in the 1990s . People forget in the late 80s Michael Knighton neatly bought the club . It was capitalism in all its glory made Man Utd the force it became .
Also part of capitalism is the leveraged buy out by a private company .
Man Utd fans canât really complain .
Sure why would they complain, didnât they field the most expensively assembled EPL starting 11 of all time a few days ago. Theyâve had more backing than anyone
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13 titles in 20 years was some achievement in fairness.
They have now gone 7 years without winning the league
They had the right man at the helm in Sir Alex though to capitalise on the competitive financial advantage that was emerging. The Liverpool era of dominance over 25 years from Shankly in the mid 60 up the start of the 90âs was also drawing to an abrupt end when Dalglish lost the heart for it post Hillsbrough.
Man U were still the biggest spending club in the 1980âs though and with all the money they were spending Sir Alex had a less than stellar first six years at the helm from 1986 up to 1992.
Chelsea in the mid 00âs with Russian state money and Manchester City a few years later with United Arab Emirates state/oil money leveled things up considerably financially at the very top. You know have an elite coterie of three super franchises with unlimited financial resources.
13 in 21 but get what youâre saying.
13 in 28 as it stands
Liverpool had an even better percentage strike rate in their golden era winning 10 league titles in 15 seasons from 1975/76 up to 1989/90. Four European Cups as well in 1977, 78, 81 & 84. Its remarkable really how Liverpool went 30 years from 1990 from that level of dominance to not winning it for so long.
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A Blackburn scrap metal merchant denied Man Utd another title
Liverpoolâs record in the 70s and 80s was very impressive also.
This time next year thereâs a fair chance it will be 20-20. Imagine not having won the league in the last 7 YearsđŽ
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They were fortunate to have an excellent manager in Alex Ferguson. Outside of his period at the club, theyâre history is littered with periods of mediocrity.
Itâs amusing now to think back on the level of tut-tutting in the early to mid 90âs over the financial investment that industrialists and philanthropists like Sir Jack Walker and Sir John Hall were making in their home town teams in Blackburn and Newcastle.
If youâre not owned now by oil money or a rogue state/dictatorship, youâre at nothing really.
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Souness dismantled a title winning team didnt he?
He didnât really . Liverpool that won the league in 1990 were a team in decline and they fell asunder in 1991 . I think Kenny Dalgliesh had enough at that stage . Souness made a balls of the rebuilding job though