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Chris Sutton sale to Blackburn worth £100 million

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Kieran Maguire has created a football inflation calculator, taking into account the huge explosion of football finances. In today's terms it makes Chris Sutton's sale worth £101 million pounds. He was later sold for an inflation adjusted figure of £80 to Chelsea.

https://theathletic.com/3192784/2022/03/28/222m-shearer-94m-keane-89m-henry-how-much-the-premier-leagues-biggest-transfers-would-cost-today/?source=emp-shared-article

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Not surprised by Essien inclusion I heard at the time there was a bidding war between Man Utd and Arsenal which Arsenal were winning at 7 million. Chelsea entered with a first bid of 20 million…

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If we’d got £100million for Sutton in 1994, would Chase have had enough left a year later for Martin O’Neill to buy Dean Windass?

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11 hours ago, Mr Angry said:

If we’d got £100million for Sutton in 1994, would Chase have had enough left a year later for Martin O’Neill to buy Dean Windass?

Nah, you would have had to apply inflation to the debts too.  All that cash would have gone to the banks.

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