With the news that Manchester United have bid £25m for Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fàbregas, Football Burp got wondering:
What else can twenty-five million of Her Majesty’s pounds get you these days?
As such, here are ten things that David Moyes’s men could spend the money on instead…
(FAO technophobes: click on each ‘thing’ in question to read more about it)
10 things that would cost the same as Cesc Fàbregas
1. Supplying and managing Northern Ireland’s libraries for five years
2. Paying off 150 senior BBC managers
3. A new mental health inpatient facility at the former Walton Hospital site in Liverpool
5. Keeping the UK at the forefront of aerospace research
6. A twelve-turbine wind farm in Ross-shire
7. Buggering up Martina Hingis’s feet
8. Buggering up the bottle design of a popular soft drink
10. Building a barrage from the English coast to the Welsh coast over the Severn tidal estuary
£25m has also been recently pledged to each of the following:
“Creative” help for dementia sufferers
Boosting jobs and stimulating the economy in businesses across the West of England
Tackling alcohol misuse among older people
Increasing the number of students studying further mathematics A level
School construction projects in Wales
Regenerating disadvantaged areas in Scotland
Do you know of anything else that would cost the same as Cesc Fàbregas? Have your say in that comments thingy – you know, the one down there…