Be sure to save your work often! Last week, I had a detailed spreadsheet with every Premiership club's 2007/08 transfers, and where they came from. Long story short, my program crashed before I had saved. So, I present to you the contents of my copy/paste buffer:
| Avg Fee | Avg App | App/Year | Cost/Year | |
| Turkey | £150,000 | 5 | 23.048 | £3,881 |
| Spain | £2,540,000 | 20 | 28.783 | £65,758 |
| Germany | £2,050,000 | 16 | 27.888 | £66,647 |
| Denmark | £2,250,000 | 9 | 34.933 | £67,694 |
| Scotland | £4,500,000 | 20 | 46.401 | £94,439 |
| France | £3,100,000 | 18 | 28.808 | £109,801 |
| Netherlands | £7,212,500 | 19 | 44.738 | £149,047 |
| England | £3,396,204 | 18 | 32.305 | £226,598 |
| Italy | £7,275,000 | 14 | 17.32 | £842,557 |
| Russia | £7,500,000 | 8 | 29.548 | £4,550,766 |
Above are all "source" countries with more than one transfer to England this season. Mostly self-explanatory. Appearance per year shows us the number of games played divided by years with the club. Cost per year is the average transfer fee divided by the appearance per year average.
For most countries shown, there is not really enough of a sample to make any conclusions. Russia's numbers are greatly inflated by Roman Abramovich's new £9 million butler Branislav Ivanovic, who is yet to play for Chelsea. If we went back to last season, the inclusion of Alexey Smertin alone would normalize things considerably. So, that's the next step. When I looked at Fulham and Arsenal, I looked at all of their players. Breaking down every team's roster by transfer source would give us a good sample.
One thing we can say, though, is that England-based players still don't look like a good value. While they do give that warm fuzzy feeling of a "proven" player, you can see that this season, Scottish, Dutch and Danish players have averaged more appearances per year.
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