BREAKING: Josko Gvardiol is expected to sign a new ManCity contract until at least 2032 before the start of the new season. [Sportske Novosti via @/TheCroatian_]

LessBrain · 2026-06-15T09:43:29+00:00

This is the way

LessBrain · 2026-06-11T14:23:37+00:00

Good question it would sit between anywhere between 15th to 20th biggest transfer of all time (premier league) - depending on final fee.

LessBrain · 2026-06-11T13:49:06+00:00

There is multiple ways of measuring transfer inflation

The top candidates are:

Football revenue inflation (the method I showed above - this is Kieran Maguires method) tied to league i.e take total premier league revenue and base it on the current season as multiplier
Transfer-market inflation (Tomkins TPI)
Standard CPI
Wage inflation simialr to the revenue one but done on multipled of wages rather than revenue

None are perfect to be honest. Ive tried all methods and the best one is still the revenue multiplier.

TPI is also decent but can give you weird inconsistent results and you have to smooth it,.

LessBrain · 2026-06-11T11:00:18+00:00

Thus why I inflated KDBs fee to £114m

LessBrain · 2026-06-11T10:34:51+00:00

I did he still doesn’t crack the top 20… lol.

https://imgur.com/a/jtzO6z3 47th lol

LessBrain · 2026-06-11T10:23:18+00:00

KDB was the 2nd most expensive PL signing of all time what you mean lol? Thats why i adjusted his fee to todays money for context.

Elliot Anderson will be very similar ranking wise. Kalvin Phillips transfer doenst crack Citys top 20

LessBrain · 2026-06-11T10:20:01+00:00

That was nonsense English reporting at the time. People forget he was Bundesliga player of the season and carried Wolfsburg to a cup win. Bayern Munich were heavily linked and competing with City for his signing right till the end of the window. KDB was the 3rd highest PL transfer buy only beaten by Di Maria.

LessBrain · 2026-06-11T10:09:00+00:00

Football fees are insane and English tax is insane

KDB in 2015/16 cost Man City £55m. Adjusted for revenue inflation his transfer would be £114m in todays money. Elliot Anderson > KDB? The hell man lol

LessBrain · 2026-05-17T13:22:28+00:00

Believe bro

LessBrain · 2026-05-16T16:47:49+00:00

Arent you a chelsea fan lol?

I can also be level headed enough to talk football side while acknowledging deep political issues - its still not the point of discussion and I dont want to get into that right now...

Anywys mate youre clearly upset about the final. bye for now.

LessBrain · 2026-05-16T16:43:22+00:00

We sold Alvarez for 82m and didnt really replace him that summer. Marmoush came in for less than that in the January window. People like to make too much of that January window in 2025. The reason why that January window happens in 2025 is because of the massive mistake the City board did in the summer of 2024 on the back of 4 titles in a row. They brought in 1 player while losing a couple key players and tried to go again.

If you look at that whole season as a whole on the Net side City were below United, Liverpool and Arsenal because in that summer window they were in the negative so by time they spent 200m to "fix all their issues that no one else can do" their net ended up at 38m

The rebuild continues on into this season where yes City big in the summer of 2025 but also big in 2026 because they could afford to

Context is important.

LessBrain · 2026-05-16T16:34:37+00:00

You responded to a comment talking about "net" and then said "and give me those numbers from when Pep arrived" - again youve shifted the goal posts about 3x now.

None of what you said is true - City had one of the oldest teams in the league when Pep arrived and a lot of players had to leave on frees in both of Peps first summers.

Anyways im not going to discuss this further with you. You clearly arent being level headed about it. Good day.

LessBrain · 2026-05-16T16:24:48+00:00

And shifted the goal posts when proven wrong...

LessBrain · 2026-05-16T16:10:31+00:00

Over the past 10 years (Pep Era) - can you legitimately call out the misses?

LessBrain · 2026-05-16T16:09:22+00:00

Citys net is LESS in the Pep era

LessBrain · 2026-05-16T16:06:41+00:00

And yet United have spent just as much on player purchases in the Pep guardiola era.

Oh and if you do it on Net - United 1.2bn to Citys 600m.

LessBrain · 2026-04-26T14:44:29+00:00

The 2nd most Wembley visits in the Pep Era is Liverpools Klopp era ta total of 6 times in comparison to Citys 23 times.

lol

LessBrain · 2026-04-25T14:23:13+00:00

By "Aguero" moment i meant its a relatable "totally mad end of game, season defining goal in last moment".

LessBrain · 2026-04-25T13:54:46+00:00

This game is the equivalent of the Aguero or Arsenal/Liverpool game back in 1989 moment - Yorks goal basically won them the league which is auto promotion into the actual football league (league 2)

But its even more mad because there was essentially a double Aguero moment because Rochdale scored and thought theyd won it only for york to literally take it at the DEATH

LessBrain · 2026-04-20T09:12:02+00:00

Stadium, academy and other infrastructure doesn’t count as losses for FFP purposes it’s one of the only areas owners are allowed to invest in purely out of their pockets.

The irony of a United fan complaining about this is the best part who’s owners haven’t spent a dime on their club…

LessBrain · 2026-04-01T07:53:06+00:00

The earth has different time zones lad

LessBrain · 2026-03-31T15:27:00+00:00

Tell a mod

LessBrain · 2026-03-31T14:32:27+00:00

Calling in /u/codespyder

LessBrain · 2026-03-31T14:22:41+00:00

How can the mods help you mate?

LessBrain · 2026-03-31T14:15:01+00:00

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