ManU's 16point swing was very impressive. From the games I saw, in my opinion, O'Shea should have won the young player award. He had excellent games against Real. But of course voting was done before all that so people couldn't take those performances into account.
ManU certainly does buy some of its talent (Ferdinand for #30 million) while Arsenal lacks the budget (I think Wiltord is their largest buy at #11million). But Real goes out and spends its money more freely than either team. Figo, Zidane, and Ronaldo were all bought within the past couple years for insane amounts of money.
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