Summer Transfer Window 23/24

People don't seem to understand transfer fees. They make weird comparisons on pure price rather than looking at all the factors that make up a transfer.

Does the club want to sell
How much is the player worth to them
Does the player want to move to a particular club
Are there any agreements in place with the player
Is there a release clause
How long is on the contract
How much and how easy would it be to replace the player
What point in the transfer window is it
How desperate is the buying club
How wealthy is the buying club
Is the buying club in a different league
Is the buying club a direct rival

Someone the other day was arguing that a player wasn't worth £60m because you could have bought Haaland for that. The suggestion that Haaland was worth £60m (or that he actually cost £60m) is just laughable. Thats like saying that Mbappe should be a benchmark for transfer fees if he moves for nothing next summer.

adam cool dude said:
I think it is either 100 million or he sees out his contract. We have got to the point where players are just becoming too expensive because of the value they offer to the team.
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This is a big part of why players are so expensive now. When a player might keep you in the league or get you european football he is worth a huge amount to you. You will have to replace them in all likelihood so you could end up with a rubbish replacement and having made little money. Its much safer to keep your asset.
 
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Regarding rice and out “apparent bid”

I saw this on an arsenal blog and thought it was well written and probably about the truth

Unless you're a club with no regard for financial fair play and run by billionaires with over 115 financial doping charges against them, you have to negotiate in this market.

All I'm seeing is people blindly falling for the 'Club X said this' or 'Club Y done that'.

The reality being that the media or these so called ITK's don't actually know. They're fed third hand information or guessing.

No surprise that on the eve of us making a bid for Rice, we're linked to Havertz. The very next day we've had a bid rejected for Rice, Manchester City might be interested. Its all a game one club making another feel pressure in different ways, no doubt a West Ham insider leaking Manchester City news to try force our hand and so on.

I'll say this if West Ham have caught wind that Manchester City are interested then you'd think they'll reject any proposal we table because it's likely Manchester City will pay more and have less clauses. This doesn't then make it Edu's fault he's being trumped by a financial juggernaut.

Let them do their dance. Can be frustrating on the outside looking in but we really don't know what happens at that level. Sometimes you can't always just 'pay what they want'
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fez said:
People don't seem to understand transfer fees. They make weird comparisons on pure price rather than looking at all the factors that make up a transfer.

Does the club want to sell
How much is the player worth to them
Does the player want to move to a particular club
Are there any agreements in place with the player
Is there a release clause
How long is on the contract
How much and how easy would it be to replace the player
What point in the transfer window is it
How desperate is the buying club
How wealthy is the buying club
Is the buying club in a different league
Is the buying club a direct rival

Someone the other day was arguing that a player wasn't worth £60m because you could have bought Haaland for that. The suggestion that Haaland was worth £60m (or that he actually cost £60m) is just laughable. Thats like saying that Mbappe should be a benchmark for transfer fees if he moves for nothing next summer.



This is a big part of why players are so expensive now. When a player might keep you in the league or get you european football he is worth a huge amount to you. You will have to replace them in all likelihood so you could end up with a rubbish replacement and having made little money. Its much safer to keep your asset.
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That is why I think Kane will stay till next summer. He is worth more to the club than the 100 million they will lose by not selling him.
 
fez said:
People don't seem to understand transfer fees. They make weird comparisons on pure price rather than looking at all the factors that make up a transfer.

Does the club want to sell
How much is the player worth to them
Does the player want to move to a particular club
Are there any agreements in place with the player
Is there a release clause
How long is on the contract
How much and how easy would it be to replace the player
What point in the transfer window is it
How desperate is the buying club
How wealthy is the buying club
Is the buying club in a different league
Is the buying club a direct rival

Someone the other day was arguing that a player wasn't worth £60m because you could have bought Haaland for that. The suggestion that Haaland was worth £60m (or that he actually cost £60m) is just laughable. Thats like saying that Mbappe should be a benchmark for transfer fees if he moves for nothing next summer.



This is a big part of why players are so expensive now. When a player might keep you in the league or get you european football he is worth a huge amount to you. You will have to replace them in all likelihood so you could end up with a rubbish replacement and having made little money. Its much safer to keep your asset.
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Not worth 100million
 
mysticsniper said:
It's all out of Levy's hands now. Kane has the club by the short and curlys now. Just like Mbappe.

Will be interesting to see how it develops
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Kane doesn't really have many options himself. His only real English club where he can win things is Manchester United and Chelsea. United will be looking for a number 9 as a priority this summer so if he doesn't leave this summer then that is it for him. Chelsea are also looking for a number 9 as a priority too so he might not really have anywhere in England come next summer.

Madrid and Bayern would take him I am sure but whether he will want to play abroad is a different thing.
 
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