Arsenal fans were pretty miserable with their transfer business on deadline day. The notion someone is a "chequebook" manager has irritated bosses in the past, with Pep Guardiola among those to bristle at the suggestion he prefers shelling out cash instead of developing players. Jose Mourinho has been dogged by claims his success is purely down to blasting his rivals out of the water in the transfer market, but which manager has exhibited the biggest spending power in the last decade? N FC's club correspondents crunch the numbers from the start of the 2008-09 season, when Guardiola took over as coach of Barcelona. The numbers show that Pep Guardiola has spent almost...
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