MONEY IS NO guarantee of success, particularly this season in the Premier League.
We don’t need a table to tell us Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea have all underachieved this campaign but when you see a list of the most expensive starting XIs, their shortcomings are emphasised.
The number crunchers over at Sky Sports have calculated the cost of each of the top-flight teams from last weekend’s set of fixtures and the data makes for interesting reading.
As you would expect, Manchester City had the most expensive starting XI for their game against Tottenham with Manuel Pellegrini’s side costing £233.6 million to assemble.
Their cross-city rivals, United, aren’t far behind while Chelsea’s miserable title defence is highlighted when you look at their spending power.
More incredibly, however, is the unlikely tale of Leicester City – as evidenced by the fact the Foxes’ team for their last outing was the 18th most costly across the league.
And huge credit too must go to Watford and Quique Sánchez Flores for the stellar season they’ve enjoyed with a budget a fraction of the size of the majority of sides in the division.
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C’mon Leinster, let’s put this bogey team behind us and try for an all irish quarter final!
Poor delusional ospreys, they need to raise their game 5 levels just to avoid being killed in the collision areas, too many of them will be thinking of wealthy courtiers abroad to bother showing up against an impressive Leinster set up
Well… It hasn’t stopped them kickin our asses in previous seasons!
Not gona be easy(it never is against The Ospreys) but confident we will get the result required to get a last 8 spot. Both teams have good strong teams named so will be a good game as always when these two teams take the field.
get on leinster too win with bonus pts. ospreys have nothing too play for but leinster have all too play for. prob have 3 tries by h/t. and 3 more by full.
Phil are you ok?
never better just pissed that no matter what happens this weekend the frenchies will all get home Q/F’s. ye will get 5 pts and we will get 4 i think. and you n me agree that sean cronin is m..k but that strauss is some push on too ireland/leinster.
I never thought I’d live to see the day that Philip wrote a comment without abusing Leinster. Great to see, best of luck to all 4 provinces this weekend.
What is it four or five Lions in the pack. Hopefully Leinster will win but with Poite on the whistle anything could happen
All AB’s motto, ” your never a failure until you start blaming someone else”.