Man Utd treble winners cost less in TOTAL than Jack Grealish

Jacque Talbot

Updated: 8 Jun 2023 00:46 CDT
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Jack Grealish, Manchester City, 2022/23 — © ProShots

The Manchester United treble winners of 1999 cost less than what Manchester City paid for Jack Grealish.

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In 2021, the Citizens broke the British transfer record by securing the England international from Aston Villa, at a cost of £100m.

The sum was broken by Enzo Fernandez’s move to Chelsea from Benfica last January, but it still ranks second, and City’s most expensive deal.

The club are now on for a treble, should they beat Inter in the Champions League final. The last British side to ever achieve this feat was Sir Alex Ferguson’s famous 1999 group.

Of course, Man City have spent big to get to this point, but what of Man Utd?

FootballTransfers has crunched the numbers and the amount that they paid for Grealish is more than what Ferguson paid to assemble his side from 24 years ago.

We took a look at the transfer cost of the Man Utd squad from back then by tallying up all the transfer fees paid for the squad.

We then adjusted their overall total with inflation.

And found that, in total, Man Utd's 1999 treble winners - even with inflation adjusted (£89.8m) - was some £11m less than what Grealish cost Pep Guardiola’s men two years ago.

Man Utd 1998/99

Peter Schmeichel - £500k

Gary Neville - free

Denis Irwin - £625k

Ronny Johnsen - £1.2m

Jaap Stam- £10.6m

David Beckham - free

Nicky Buttt - free

Andy Cole - £7m

Teddy Sheringham - £3.5m

Ryan Giggs - free

Phil Neville - free

📅 On this day, 24 years ago, Man Utd completed their famous treble after scoring two stoppage time goals to beat Bayern 2-1 at the Camp Nou.

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🏆 FA Cup
🏆 Champions League

Pep Guardiola and Man City are just two wins away from achieving the same feat. 👀 pic.twitter.com/L2JbfYpv0g
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