Which team has spent more on transfers since 2004 in the English Premier League? Liverpool or Man Utd

Question

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Answer 1

Manchester United surely!

Tevez-32 (million)

Hargreaves18

Carrick-18

Nani-17

Anderson-17

Vidic-7

Evra-7

Rooney-27

Then Liverpool have bought

Alonso-10

Keane-18

Torres-20+Garcia

Dossena-7

Skrtel-7

Agger-6

Sissoko-6

Mascherano-18

Lucas-6

Babel-13

Kuyt-12

Cisse-14

Reina-8

You can do the maths!!!

Answer 2

The answer is Liverpool:

2004/05

UNITED:

Spent:

27/5/04 Alan Smith £7m

11/6/04 Gabriel Heinze £6.9m

31/8/04 Wayne Rooney £29m

Total spent: £42.9m

Received:

26/5/04 Danny Pugh £1m

29/7/04 Nicky Butt £2.5m

20/8/04 Diego Forlan £2m

31/1/05 Eric Djemba-Djemba £1.35m

Total Received: £6.85

United net spent: £36.05m

Running Gross Total: £42.9m

Running Net Total: £36.05m

LIVERPOOL:

Spent:

1/7/04 Djibril Cisse £14m

27/7/04 Josemi £2m

1/8/04 Javier Luis Garcia £6m

1/8/04 Xabi Alonso £10.5

13/08/04 Antonio Nunez, £2m

13/1/05 Fernando Morientes £6.3m

21/1/05 Scott Carson £0.75m

Total spent: £41.55m

Received:

20/5/04 Emile Heskey £6.25

10/8/04 Danny Murphy £2.5

13/8/04 Michael Owen £10m

Total Received: £18.75m

Liverpool net spent: £22.8m

Running Gross Total: £41.55

Running Net Total: £22.8m

2005/06

UNITED:

Spent:

1/6/05 Edwin van der Sar £1.2m

5/7/05 Ji-Sung Park £4m

19/7/05 Ben Foster £1m

4/1/06 Nemanja Vidic £7m

10/1/06 Patrice Evra £5.5m

Total spent: £18.7m

Received:

4/8/05 Philip Neville £3.5m

8/8/05 Kleberson £2.5m

Total Received: £6m

United net spent: £12.7m

Running Gross Total: £55.6m

Running Net Total: £48.75m

LIVERPOOL:

Spent:

4/7/05 Jose Reina £6m

4/7/05 Mark Gonzalez £4.5m

13/7/05 Mohamed Sissoko £5.6

20/7/05 Peter Crouch £7m

12/1/06 Daniel Agger £5.8m

Total spent: £28.9m

Received:

16/6/05 El-Hadji Diouf  ÃƒÂ‚£4m

23/8/05 Milan Baros £6.5m

Total Received: £10.5m

Liverpool net spent: £18.4m

Running Gross Total: £70.45m

Running Net Total: £41.2m

2006/07

UNITED:

Spent:

31/7/06 Michael Carrick £18.6m

Total spent: £18.6m

Received:

3/6/06 Jon Obi Mikel £12m

15/6/06 Jonathan Spector £0.5m

14/7/06 Sylvain Ebanks-Blake £0.3m

28/7/06 Ruud van Nistelrooy £10.3m

Total Received: £23.1m

United net spent: -£4.5m

Running Gross Total: £74.2m

Running Net Total: £44.25m

LIVERPOOL:

Spent:

22/6/06 Craig Bellamy £6m

1/7/06 Gabriel Paletta £2m

26/7/06 Jermaine Pennant £6.7m

18/8/06 Dirk Kuyt £9m

31/1/07 Alvaro Arbeloa £2.6m

Total spent: £26.3m

Received:

13/06/06 Zak Whitbread £0.2m

25/5/06 Fernando Morientes £3m

4/8/06 Antonio Barragan £0.675m

8/8/06 Djimi Traore £2m

30/8/06 Neil Mellor £0.5m

31/08/06 Jan Kromkamp £1.75m

??/10/06 Chris Kirkland £3.5m

18/1/07 Darren Potter £0.25m

22/1/07 Stephen Warnock £1.5m

Total Received: £13.375

Liverpool net spent: £12.925m

Running Gross Total: £96.75m

Running Net Total: £54.125m

2007/08

UNITED:

Spent:

??/??/07 Tomasz Kuszczak £2m

1/7/07 Owen Hargreaves £17m

2/7/07 Anderson £17m

2/7/07 Nani £14m

Total spent: £50m

Received:

??/??/07 David Jones £1m

??/??/07 Tim Howard £3m

16/7/07 Kieran Richardson £5.5m

31/7/07 Giuseppe Rossi £6.7m

3/8/07 Alan Smith £6m

23/8/07 Gabriel Heinze £8m

??/??/08 Ryan Shawcross £1m

??/??/08 Phil Bardsley £2m

Total Received: £33.2m

United net spent: £16.8m

Running Gross Total: £124.2m

Running Net Total: £61.05m

LIVERPOOL:

Spent:

11/05/07 Lucas Leiva £5m

28/06/07 Mikel Dominguez £0.27m

01/07/07 Sebastian Leto £1.8m

4/7/07 Fernando Torres £20.2m

12/7/07 Yossi Benayoun £5m

13/7/07 Ryan Babel £11.5m

26/08/07 Emiliano Insua £1.3m

11/01/08 Martin Skrtel £6.5m

29/02/08 Javier Mascherano £18.6m

Total spent: £70.17m

Received:

4/5/07 Florent Sinama-Pongolle £2.7m

20/6/07 Danny O Donnell £0.1m

3/7/07 Javier Luis Garcia £4m

8/7/07 Djibril Cisse £6m

10/7/07 Craig Bellamy £7.5m

19/7/07 Mark Gonzalez £3.5m

26/08/07 Gabriel Paletta £1.2m

28/01/08 Mohamed Sissoko £8.2m

Total Received: 33.2m

Liverpool net spent: £36.97m

Running Gross Total: £166.92m

Running Net Total: £91.095m

2008/09

UNITED:

Spent:

14/06/08 Davide Petrucci £0

Total spent: £0

Received:

27/05/08 Gerard Pique £6m

29/07/08 Chris Eagles £1.25m

Total Received: £7.25m

United net spent: -£7.25

United Final Gross Total: £124.2m

United Final Net Total: £53.8m

LIVERPOOL:

Spent:

03/07/2008 Philipp Degen £0

04/07/2008 Andrea Dossena £7m

11/07/2008 Diego Cavalieri £3.5m

24/07/08 David Ngog £1.5m

28/07/08 Robbie Keane £19m

Total spent: £31m

Received:

01/07/2008 John Arne Riise £4m

01/07/2008 Harry Kewell £0

02/07/2008 Anthony Le Tallec Undisclosed

11/07/2008 Peter Crouch £11m

14/07/2008 Danny Guthrie £2.25m

18/07/2008 Scott Carson £4m

Total Received: £21.25m

Liverpool net spent: £9.75m

Liverpool Final Gross Total: £197.92m

Liverpool Final Net Total: £101.7m

So since 2004/05, Liverpool have spent £73.72m more than United on transfers. They'll still claim they have no cash and that United have "bought the league" though...

Note I haven't included Tevez as we haven't signed him yet and we don't know how much he will cost officially. Whatever the cost, it's obviously not going to cover much of that £73m more that LFC have spent.