Summer Transfer Window 2017/18 - Rumours & Signings

75m!! pants pulled down and no lube.

Good riddance, will be interesting watching United fans getting frustrated with his non existant first touch, lazyness and averageness with back to goal. Someone take Barkley too. Then I will be happy with our dealings this window.

Someone mentioned Everton paying a lot for average players, who isn't?
 
Rotty said:
Lukaku to man u and rooney prob other way, transfer deal that's bad for both sides :p
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Indeed, anything over 90-100k for Rooney is too high. I'd be amazed if we are paying his full wage. Will be interesting to see how that breaks down. I'd be gutted frankly if we are paying more than 70k but to be fair we owe them for Felliani.
 
Proven PL striker who has scored a lot of goals for a reasonable team? Sure, I'll take that over a bit part RM player to be honest.
Hopefully he'll improve and forgo some of the laziness.
 
And the insane prices continue... 75m for Lukaku? Means he is priced higher than Luis Suarez just 3 years ago. The market prices for players has just gone batturd crazy in the last couple of years. Average defenders being thrown about for 50m, average midfielders being thrown about for 60m, average strikers being thrown about for 75m. Its utterly ridiculous. I'm in the wrong line of work, I should be a football agent, easy money.
 
Just to put these fees into a bit of perspective - accounting for football inflation, Ferdinand's move to Utd in 2002 is the equivalent of over £130m today. £75m on Lukaku today is the same as around £17m in 2002.
 
BaZ87 said:
Just to put these fees into a bit of perspective - accounting for football inflation, Ferdinand's move to Utd in 2002 is the equivalent of over £130m today. £75m on Lukaku today is the same as around £17m in 2002.
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Inflation when looking back 15 years I can understand, but even compared to some sales within the last 3 years some of the prices this summer are bonkers.

EDIT : Not just on actual transfer prices either..I mean even on wages. I'm wondering how long it will be before a footballer is on £1m a week (even on weeks where they dont play or stay on the bench) and with a transfer fee of a quarter of a billion
 
BaZ87 said:
Just to put these fees into a bit of perspective - accounting for football inflation, Ferdinand's move to Utd in 2002 is the equivalent of over £130m today. £75m on Lukaku today is the same as around £17m in 2002.
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I saw that article and its complete BS. Thats not using monetary inflation as its basis, I assume its using average player cost or total PL spend or some other stupid metric to get that figure. The PL is vastly more wealthy than it ever was in the past and where United had lots of money to spend in the past, every team has huge amounts to spend now.

When United signed Ferdinand for £30m it was a lot of money but no one really said "**** me that ridiculous". The transfer fees now routinely get that response. Can you imagine any player apart from Messi going for £130m currently? Thats €150m.
 
Raiola often uses Jim White as his mouthpiece.
fez said:
I saw that article and its complete BS. Thats not using monetary inflation as its basis, I assume its using average player cost or total PL spend or some other stupid metric to get that figure. The PL is vastly more wealthy than it ever was in the past and where United had lots of money to spend in the past, every team has huge amounts to spend now.

When United signed Ferdinand for £30m it was a lot of money but no one really said "**** me that ridiculous". The transfer fees now routinely get that response. Can you imagine any player apart from Messi going for £130m currently? Thats €150m.
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What? I honestly have no idea what your criticism of the formula is. :confused:

You do realise that Utd's turnover in 2002 was just £175m. £30m was over 17% of Utd's turnover. Utd last season turned over around £570 - £75m will be around 13% of turnover. Whichever way you want to look at it, £75m on Lukaku is a lot less than £30m on Ferdinand in 2002.

edit: The formula is far from perfect and you can get your odd anomaly but as a general rule and to give you a rough idea of inflation in football it's very useful.

And while of course everybody has more money now (that's the inflation I mentioned), Utd are actually more richer than the rest (as a whole) now than in 2002.
 
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Blimey £75mill for Lukaku?? Geezus prices have seriously gone crazy this year.

I mean we shelled out £46mill plus add ons for Lacazette and that pretty high for our standards.

But Lukaku for £75mill, utterly nuts. If Everton get that much for him then well played.
 
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