Thats Robben ofski to Madrid for 21 shmillion.

Out of form and lacking match practice

I remember the outrage when a "firing on all cylinders" Shearer moved to United for 15 million, making him the most expensive player in the world. How times change.

you just have to look at the premiership to see the amount of money involved in football these days. Man City and Man Utd have spent over 50 million on players this summer, Liverpool close to that sum of money and even Sunderland have spent over 30 million on players. In Europe Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona have all spent big. The sad fact is, to be the best in football, you have to spend tons.

The sad fact is, to be the best in football, you have to spend tons.

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I like the fact that, in football, the big money is going to the guys 'at the coal face' as it were whilst directors regularly lose their shirts. Wish it was like that in my game.

Chelski are lining up a near ?90M bid for Ronaldhinio this week and its expected they will pay him ?200 000 per week. Its things like this that is pricing football out of reach of the humble commoner :018: