Annual spending on defense
by wiNDycityfan (2017-07-24 12:27:06)
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1. USA
2. China
3. Saudi Arabia
4. India
5. United Kingdom
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96. Bosnia
97. Manchester City
98. Zambia
99. Armenia


Is Saudi Arabia really 3rd on that list?
by DakotaDomer  (2017-07-25 10:30:50)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Not sure I like that idea
Yes, that's right
by spade  (2017-07-25 15:24:54)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Top 15 Defence Budgets 2015[4]
Rank Country Spending
($ Bn.) % of GDP
World total 1,686 2.2
1 United States United States 611.2 3.3
2 China China[a] 215.7 1.9
3 Russia Russia 69.2 5.3
4 Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia[a][b] 63.7 10
5 India India 55.9 2.5
6 France France 55.7 2.3
7 United Kingdom United Kingdom 48.3 1.9
8 Japan Japan 46.1 1.0
9 Germany Germany 41.1 1.2
10 South Korea South Korea 36.8 2.7
To be fair, they were overdue
by CuzTeahan  (2017-07-24 15:56:11)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

City's spending on full-backs:

2011: £7m
2012: £3m
2013: £0
2014: £0
2015: £0
2016: £0
2017: £120m
Haha...
by iudomer  (2017-07-24 13:40:59)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

still talking about Ryan Bertrand from Southampton too, at another 40m pounds.
At some point
by HTownND  (2017-07-24 14:59:42)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Chelsea will start doing buy back clauses.

See, Betrand/De Bruyne/Lukaku

Even if they don't keep them, buy back and sell at the new rate (ala Madrid and Morata)