Sunday, 26 July 2009

Fact Corner with Rafael Benitez - Auctions

Hello to all managers except Alex Ferguson.

Fact - The co-ordinator is busy finalising the fixture list.

Fact - He's asked me to take some time off from worrying about whether Liverpool will have a midfield next season to write a blog post for him.

Fact - So I thought I'd write one about facts. Here are the headline auction details from the last couple of seasons.

2007/8

August 2007

New Players for auction - 134
New Players purchased - 66
Straight to pool - 68
Purchased for £10m plus - 10 players
Purchased for £500k - 23 players
Most Expensive - David Nugent £18m to Boston Rock

September 2007
(Wage bill rule introduced before this auction)

New Players for auction - 37
New Players purchased - 19
Straight to pool - 18
Purchased for £10m plus - 3 players
Purchased for £500k - 9 players
Most Expensive - Kenwyne Jones £15m to The Dead Parrots

February 2008

New Players for auction - 48
New Players purchased - 27
Straight to pool - 21
Purchased for £10m plus - 3 players
Purchased for £500k - 9 players
Most Expensive - Afonso Alves £13m to Claymore Athletic

2008/9

August 2008

New Players for auction - 116
New Players purchased - 52
Straight to pool - 64
Purchased for £10m plus - 5 players
Purchased for £500k - 21 players
Most Expensive - Jose Bosingwa £18m to Claymore Athletic

September 2008

New Players for auction - 40
New Players purchased - 20
Straight to pool - 20
Purchased for £10m plus - 4 players
Purchased for £500k - 7 players
Most Expensive - Robinho £16m to Trusted and Roman Pavlyuchenko £16m to the Groove Machine (although Boston Rock did pay £17m for summer dump Shaun Wright-Phillips)

February 2009

New Players for auction - 26
New Players purchased - 15
Straight to pool - 11
Purchased for £10m plus - 1 player
Purchased for £500k - 2 players
Most Expensive - Andrei Arshavin £13m to Final Fantasy

So 16 players sold for £10m plus in 2007/8 but only 10 last season. Is interesting, must be conspiracy between FA and Scotsman.

Your friend in facts.

Rafa

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