If you're gonna bring in other transfers then let's add in the fact that they also bought Nedved and Thuram that year for a combined €84m. And Salas and Zenoni for another €41m combined. They spent like €180m in total. Double what the next highest spending club spent.
They sold £115m worth of players and bought in 149m worth, how is that brag worthy when they only spent £35m of their own money lol. Zidane wasn't their only big sale in 2001.
Even with the Zidane sale and a few others, their net that season was nearly €50m, which was huge at the time. Behind only Barcelona and Real Madrid, who were at €60 and €70m for that summer.
LOL are you really bringing Real and Barca into this? Did Barca sell their superstars to spent big? No they sold 5 players for £27m all together and spent £79m on new signings, thats £48m of their own money.
Real Madrid only loaned players out that season and bought Zidane for £62m, again no major sale needed to fund that move.
They've broken the world transfer record 4 times in their history. Only Real Madrid have broken it more times with 5.
Am I supposed to be impressed? Oh wow they've broken a few records in the 20th century when Italy was a more relevant place to play, big whoop. Meanwhile Real broke the WR on Zidane, Kaka, Ronaldo and Bale. What a great comparison there bud.
By 1992, they had something like 4 of the 6 most expensive transfer of all time and they were doing it in seasons where they literally sold nobody, or raised only a €2m in sales. To this day they have 5 of Serie A's 10 most expensive transfers.
This discussion initally was about recent history and now your trying to give me a history lesson? I don't care about what happened 25 years ago lol. Back when Newcastle were breaking records.
Juventus have been relatively shrewd for a few years and you suddenly think they've never spent big lol.
So shrewd they used the Pogba money on a near 30 year old Higuain who went invisible in the CL final nice description there mate. And if you knew how to read you'd have clearly realised I meant they only spend big when another club buys their player(s).