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Originally Posted by GCHQ
I'm not getting into yet another in depth discussion about the Ronaldo money and net spend figures. Even I'm bored to death of that. At the end of the day if you can't appreciate how much that £80m fee distorts the net spend calculation under the Glazers ownership then god help you quite frankly. In gross terms the cash expenditure on players under the Glazers is over £250m.
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I totally agree that there's no point in giong over the same old "Ronaldo money" thing. But I am still waiting to hear you explain your new take on the situation, which puts the whole net spend thing back at the centre of arguments.
As I understand your point, even with the £80m we gained from selling Ronaldo, under the PLC we would have had to either sell more players or buy fewer compared to those we have under the Glazers, right?
Surely even if the PLC were the incompetent muppets you make out, the fortunate windfall of £80m would have meant we could still have brough in the likes of Jones, de Gea etc?
Would we really have been so skint that the £80m wasn't enough to avoid cutting squad investment to pretty much zero? Would Rooney have had to go too?