Still vastly overpriced - unfortunately this nonsense will have repurcussions for clubs buying proven quality like N'Zogbia, Modric et al this summer.
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Still vastly overpriced - unfortunately this nonsense will have repurcussions for clubs buying proven quality like N'Zogbia, Modric et al this summer.
not sure where you get the idea £16m is a "world class fee".
Young & English moving between two English (EPL) clubs is always bound to bump the price up, the only overly pricey one in your list was Carroll (and that was probably mainly to do with the Torres fee being known , and time running out in Jan window to get a replacement)
One of the many retirement pieces I read stated Scholes was only on £60k a week. Scholes is probably one of the only players of his skill / age that you could believe would be on such a low wage (for a top class player).
Must be best part of £300k+ /week being saved from that lot (and with hopefully Brown, Gibson going as well.....another £100k+ ontop)
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It depends on how you look at transfer fees. If you're looking simply at current ability then it's expensive however if you're looking at them as a longterm investment/asset, it's cheaper than at first thought.
Spending £10m, £15m or £20m on a 20 year old could be half the true cost of spending the exact same fee on a 26 year old for example. Of course, when signing an older player you're likely to be signing a more proven player so it's less of a gamble.
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The initial fee is subjective and impossible to make judgement on until a few years down the line.
Joe cole was free, but has a reported annual salary of £4 million with no resale value. On top of that he has hardly played.
Its kind of ironic that that free transfer was very costly.
If i recall correctly he never hired an agent. All his contract dealings he did himself. His relatively low wages reflect the kind of player he was as well though. He turned up, played his game and went home. He was never interested in the glitz and the glamour and the controversy that seems so irresistible to the vast majority of these players.
I always got the impression that he genuinely was just happy to be out there playing football. That someone wanted to pay him to do it was just the icing on the cake.
that's exactly the kind of player he was and i wish there were more like him. he was a massive oldham atheltic fan (think it was them) and he said he'd rather be watching them with his kids and old man than be anywhere else in the world.
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I highly doubt clubs reward their players by cutting their pay tbh
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Any more info on Nasri at all anybody?
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older players usually take a slight pay cut towards the end of their career don't they?
The next Beckham .. only problem being - he cant tell which head's to send the ball towards so always ends up in the stands
poor lad.He'd literally bankrupt Chelsea in a single transfer market.
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Smalling and Jones will make a great pairing in a few years
edit: no idea why I typed create instead of great, muppet.
edit: no idea why I typed create instead of great, muppet.
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It would be interesting to see what this signing means for Smalling. I can't see Jones joining Utd and I can't see Utd paying £16m if he's going there as 4th choice.
With Ferdinand likely to be around for at least another season and Vidic capable of playing another 3+ seasons, I don't think we'll see much of the Smalling-Jones pairing for quite some time.
Of couse it is possible that Jones is being signed as a CM, although that's unlikely.
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