Carling Cup fourth round 26/27 October 2010

[spud_gun]

Came across this gem on another forum

Scum fan posting about Hernandez

'He made his mark tonight...easily the best Mexican striker since Hugo Sanchez...'

[lickedlollipop]

oh c'mon he scored vs wolverhampton and now he's suddenly the best striker...

****arito all the way!

[PTP]

the first half was ****ing dire in that game - bu 2nd half sprung to life - Wolves were unlucky - a little bit more composure in front of goal and they'd have beaten united - they broke through them at will during the 2nd half - the difference was, united in front of goal.

that hernadez or whatever - you can say what u want - i like the look of him, granted he's a cunt and plays for the scum, but that backwards header at the weekend was class, and it was a great little bit of skill last night to create the space and finish.

That said though - u look at was well united's second string if you like - how much did players like obertan, bebe, park, smalling, carrick? - those prices, for us - those players have had to be first team and on form every week or they are criticised by everyone - fans and media - at united though, they disappear, you hardly see them, and then when they struggle past wolves at home, they're praised for being young and class and shows the strength of the united squad etc etc etc.

I don't know if i am making a valid point here, but feel i need to slag the cunts off after giving some praise to that gob****e the little pea

[Fernandinho]

too true mate. We pay 7 mil for someone (bebe) and they are first team for us (poulsen/bombscare and we payed less!) Park was a fair amount too wasn't he? Carrick was more then Aquilani! Its so true

[Pablo]

Yep, Ferguson's poor buys, and there are so, so, many are always hushed up by the media. It's infuriating. Their second string last night probably cost almost as much as our first XI.

[Fernandinho]

Ide be interested to see that figure actually. Can somebody who has a rough idea of the figures work that out? I would do it but I haven't been around long enough to know the deals...

[PTP]

Ide be interested to see that figure actually. Can somebody who has a rough idea of the figures work that out? I would do it but I haven't been around long enough to know the deals...

you might not have been around long enough - but there is something called the internet that has been around for some time now

[Fernandinho]

Can you give me a link to this internet thing?

[Shaggy]

40 Amos - free
06 Brown - free
12 Smalling - £8m
20 Fabio Da Silva (Neville 74) - free?
23 Evans - free?
13 Park Ji-Sung (Morrison 90+5) - £4m
16 Carrick - £18m
28 Gibson - free?
26 Obertan - £3m
27 Macheda - free?
33 Tiago Bebe - £7.4m (Hernandez 81 - £7m)

Total: £47.4m

Can't even be arsed adding ours up, it won't be that low.

[Pablo]

Off the top of my head:

Reina - £8m
Carragher - free
Kyriagos - £2m
Skrtel - £6m
Konk - £5m
Kuyt - £10m
Poulsen - £4m
Meireles - £14m
Cole - free
Gerrard - free
Torres - £20m

Total = £69m (give or take a few inaccuracies).

[Shaggy]

Put Aurelio in - he's better than that other useless ****er and he was free.

Reina was £6m wasn't he. So that's down to £62m. Not much in it. It's about the same as Berbatov and Rooney.

[Pablo]

Shove Hargreaves (remember him?) in their team and we're about even

[Shaggy]

And surely Meireles was less than £14m? £11m wasn't it?

[Fernandinho]

Ok I researched all of them then and got this:

Carrick 18.6 mil
Park 4mil
Bebe 7.4 mil
Hernandez 6 mil
Fabio 2.6mil (half of the 5.2 payed for both of them)
Smalling 8 mil
Obertan 3 mil
Evans-Junior
Gibson- Junior
Macheda-Junior
Amos-Junio

I got an average of 4.5 mil for united, and a standard deviation of 5.55 for any stats buffs out there

[Fernandinho]

If you use Shaggy's one with Aurelio on a free and Reina at 6 mil and Meireles for 11 the average is 5.36 mil which is on average less then 1 mil more then united.

But if we use our full strength team and add 12 mil for Johnson (taking out skrtel) and add 2 mil for lucas instead of Poulsen we get 6.63 mil which is on average 2 mil more.