Chairman Woodie
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Edwin Van Der Sar was a bargain at £2m from Fulham.
Absolutely! I'd say 2005-06 was one of Ferguson's best transfer windows ever.Add Park Ji Sung for £4m!
Just to show how much things have changed financially, back in 2012 there were people claiming we overpayed for a player who was a year away from the end of his contract.Van Persie won the title.
The title cost pretty much 24m. That was superb business.
In 2008 Berbatov arrived for £30.75m. Four years later, in comparison to this, RvP looks like a steal of the century.Just to show how much things have changed financially, back in 2012 there were people claiming we overpayed for a player who was a year away from the end of his contract.
This was an incredible run of business at a time when Chelsea had begun to blow everyone out of the water in the transfer market.Edwin van Der Saar - £2m
Patrice Evra - £5.5m
Nemanja Vidic - £7m
Cristiano Ronaldo - £12m
Michael Carrick - £14m
Wayne Rooney - £30m
Rio Ferdinand - £30m
£100m for 7 key players for our 08 CL winners squad, amazing.
By a country fecking mile. He created the winning mentality/culture along with Sir Alex.Cantona, easily
Is the correct answer.for me it is barely even a debate, two deals we have done stand out far and way above any others
Schmeichel - For me and I am biased, the best keeper of all time for a pittance and instrumental in league titles with the points he saved and moves he started, revolutionary in his time
Cantona - Has to be the number one £1m and he was bought as David Hirst got injured if I remember rightly? Bought for a team who hadnt won the league for so many years, he was the missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle and start of the years of success we enjoyed....also instrumental in his influence like a pied piper of the Fergie fledglings
Shirt sales. Commercial reach. Sponsorships.Yeah I thought about him. cost £12M and was sold for £80M. Was with the club for 6 years helping us to win 3 league titles and the Champions league. Massive influence and sold at a huge profit.
Peter Schmeichel cost just over £500,000 (can you imagine what he'd go for today?)Edwin Van Der Sar was a bargain at £2m from Fulham.
28 year old GK playing in Danish league, CAF would have moaned about this transfer every day, forget day, every hour moaning how low we have fallen, signing 28 year old GK from Danish club.Peter Schmeichel cost just over £500,000 (can you imagine what he'd go for today?)
It is in today's money, but at the time Rooney and Ferdinand were near record/record fees for players of their age (and considered very expensive, I recall people mocking us for getting "ripped off" for Rio in particular). I'm not sure they should be considered "bargins" though in hindsight and given the decade plus of success they heralded maybe it was.Edwin van Der Saar - £2m
Patrice Evra - £5.5m
Nemanja Vidic - £7m
Cristiano Ronaldo - £12m
Michael Carrick - £14m
Wayne Rooney - £30m
Rio Ferdinand - £30m
£100m for 7 key players for our 08 CL winners squad, amazing.
add Kanchelskis for 650k - was another great dealSchmeichal for £500k
Irwin £625k
Park for £4m
Cantona £1.2m
Van der Saar £2m
Players like Pallister, Keane or Rooney aren’t bargains in the sense that they were record signings at the time, and it’s only time that’s shown them to be great value for money.
Plenty of people have mentioned him.RVP
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He had 1 awesome season and we paid good money for a player with only 1 year left on contract. We have so many players who were better value for money.RVP
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