Andriy Shevchenkos £31m fee in 2006 would be worth £215m in todays money; seven Chelsea players make all-time XI for inflation-adjusted fees during Premier League era; Blues spending during first two years under Roman Abramovich and Jose Mourinho exceeds Todd Boehly expenditure
Seven players in the most expensive all-time Premier League starting line-up are Chelsea signings - many from the early Abramovich-era in the mid 2000s - with the remaining four all Manchester United players.Manchester City are the only other club whose signings would even make the substitutes' bench, assuming we are picking players in their appropriate positions to have a balanced match-day squad.
Their spending in 2003/04 and 2004/05 - the first two full seasons under Abramovich and manager Jose Mourinho, would be equivalent to spending £1.5bn today, even more than they have done in the past two summers under new owner Todd Boehly. His big spending in the early years at Chelsea was topped up by signing the likes of Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku for Man United and Sergio Reguilon for Tottenham.
That compares with the likes of Sean Dyche, Sam Allardyce and Roy Hodgson on the other end of the scale, who make do with less than £1.5m spent on new players per match.While we aren't all popping to Sainsbury's and picking ourselves up a Jack Grealish or a Juan Sebastian Veron along with our eggs, the prices of the regular goods and services we buy have been rising at 40-year record rates this year.
"It also depends on the strength of the club and the league. Newly promoted Premier League clubs today can have as much spending power as the champions of Germany - Bayern Munich. This shows the most expensive players at each age, after adjusting for inflation. Cristiano Ronaldo is the only non-goalkeeper on the list over the age of 32.Our approach in calculating football inflation mimics the method used to work out inflation on goods and services.
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