Apoel Nicosia is a small club with a very tight budget on the island of Cyprus. In the year 2011/12, they became the first club from Cyprus to qualify for TheChampion league ever.
Manchester united spent 50 million pounds in the summer transfer.16 million on Ashley Young, 16 million pounds on Phil Jones and 18 million on David deGea. While Apoel Nicosia spent only 200,000 pounds, most of the players have joined on the Bossman rule.
Apoels Nicosia has a yearly budget of 7.2 million pounds.While Manchester United has a budget 25 times of that.They pay the players yearly 200,000 pounds, that is equal to carlos tevez, weekly salary at Manchester city.Their highest paid footballer Estaben Scolari gets only 8,000 pounds a year.
They have knocked out mighty Lyon from the group of 16, and have reached the quarter finals for the first time ever.
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