10 Stats That Show Why Newcastle United Lost To Manchester United

10. The Red Devils' Starting XI Cost £228m... More Than Six Times The Magpies'

The romantic in every football fan does not want to believe this - but money talks. Manchester United are not playing particularly well but they are grinding out results and there is a reason why - they spent northwards of £150 million bolstering their squad last summer, compared to Newcastle United's £27.5m. To put that into perspective, Angel di Maria (£59.7m) alone cost more than double the outlay the Magpies spent to bring in the likes of Siem de Jong (£6m), Remy Cabella (£10m), Emmanuel Riviere (£5m), Daryl Janmaat (£5m) and Ayoze Perez (£1.5m). The XI players who took to the field at the start of the game for Newcastle on Wednesday were bought for a combined £36.8million - while the Red Devils' starting line-up cost more than six times that at £228m. Big money buys you late and important goals - no matter how fortuitous Ashley Young's strike may have been...