Premier League 2009-2010 prediction thread!!

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I have a soft spot for Man City but what they are doing is a bit obscene. They are paying extortionate amount for only half decent players, Real Madrid are doing the same.

I don't think the prices are so bad.

Bellamy £10m + £4m based on appearances (won't happen) - Not great

Given £8m - Bargain

Bridge £12m - Not great but is Glen Johnson worth £17m? English players cost more

Tevez - £26.5m - Who knows, but that was always the fixed price regardless of who came in for him.

Barry - £12m - Compare that with the £12m Villa have spent on Downing

De Jong - £16m - Unfair to comment just yet. Good at his job as a defensive midfielder. Price is a bit steep but a good player nonetheless.

Santa Cruz - £12 + £5.5m add ons - Maybe a bit steep but a good player and he gives us a different threat upfront.

Adebayor - £22m - Fair price imo. Only Torres and Ronaldo scored more goals than him in last 2 seasons. Scored more than Drogba and Anelka combined over last 2 seasons.

So yeah we've paid a little over on some players but that's not purely our fault. Other teams know we have money and as such they raise their asking price by a few million. Every club has done it with us and we can't honestly walk away from every deal, otherwise we'd have the same squad that finished 10th.

Also it's not just City spending money on 'average players'

For example Chelsea spent £18m on John Obi Mikel, Villa spent £12m on Milner and Downing. Man Utd have spent £16m on Valencia.

Another thing, the media keep adding a few millions onto deals and a few thousand on proposed wage offers, because it makes more of a story.

For example, Adebayor is nowhere near the 170k p/w he's reported to be on. Barry isn't anywhere near the £130k p/w neither. Robinho is the top earner still and he takes home 92k p/w after tax.

they are indeed fair prices but you arent buying players that can win you premierships.

Chelsea brought in the likes of essien,drogba,carvalho,cech,ferreira - all relative unknowns in the uk but all of which were championship winners with their respective clubs abroad.

I dont see a single one there that has experience of winning titles

Carlos Tevez and Wayne Bridge have both won the Premier League title. Santa Cruz has two Bundesliga medals, 2 German Cup medals and Champions League medal
Adebayor has the experience of competing for a title and playing in a Champions League final, as has Tevez (x2)

Buying players who have championship medals in other countries isn't a sure-fire way to win the Premier League. It's a different league altogether.
Chamakh, the striker for Bordeaux has a Ligue 1 medal but it doesn't mean he's the better option than Adebayor.

The important thing is you buy players with a winning mentality who do all they can do win. I think we've done that so far with hopefully a few more players to come.

It's not been a year since we were taken over and given that we finished 10th last season, the signings we have made have been very good - especially this summer.

As well as the good signings Chelsea have made they've also made some pretty terrible signings over the last few years.

Tiago, Shevchenko, Ivanovic, Mutu, Veron etc...

aswell as some expensive average signings...

Crespo, Mikel, Ferreira, Malouda etc..