I'm not a City fan, in fact, I've grown up with the vast majority around me being Liverpool fans (I'm not a Liverpool fan either).

I've seen them turn salty over the past 5-6 seasons, with multiple posts on social media about City. Especially the one yesterday about no one "caring about City's success". It's gotten worse over the past few weeks.

The argument always comes back to money and how much City has spent much more, but lately, the "net spend" argument has died completely.

Is £165m difference in spend in 7 seasons, enough to suggest City have massively outspent Liverpool?

That's £23.5m a season.

I know I'm asking in a City sub but the Liverpool and PL sub are complete cesspools these days.

by Spudbank17

7 comments

  1. Let’s consider the only stats that matter, and that’s the amount of Premier Leagues won. They’ll always bring up the money, but as your post says – it’s the most minor difference.

    Pep is the real difference maker.

  2. Wouldn’t Liverpools look much better by the fact they somehow managed to get 140 million for coutinho?

  3. Liverpool fans traditionally favour net spend because they trousered lots of cash from Coutinho to Barcelona (thus helping to provoke Barca crisis, but hey-ho). Another way of looking at it is to try to gauge how effective the spending is. As here: [https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/the-premier-league-big-sixs-net-spent-per-trophy-over-the-last-10-years](https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/the-premier-league-big-sixs-net-spent-per-trophy-over-the-last-10-years)

  4. This actually looks like one of the first believable figures I’ve seen. I still think it undervalues what Liverpool have spent as it doesn’t account for the add ons Liverpool love putting on most of their major transfers.

  6. Same amount of meetings? This just may be the biggest rivalry in football history.

  7. You’re right that it’s not a huge difference in spending, especially when you factor in the trophies the clubs have won. The wins justify the spending for City and are also sources of additional revenue.

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