Your beloved sir alex ferguson

to add on to this, SAF spent 268 million from 2002 to 2007

theres a difference between football inflation and regular inflation.. with ever record breaking or expensive signing made in football, it just increases even more. why do you think players like Dembele are going about for 100 plus million?

''Since 2014, the annual inflation growth rate on the transfer market for big-5 league footballers has been 26%.''
This is just from 2014.