Outrageous Transfers

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Postby redshade » Tue Sep 01, 2015 10:00 pm

I find the transfer fees shocking at current times.
These player are deffinetely not worth the amount sold for.

United have snapped a 19yr old prospect for 36 million and could be rising to 52 due to add ons.

City have splashed another 50 mill for de bryne.

Its crazy stuff..

59.7 di maria
54.5 de bryne
50    Torres
49    Sterling
42.5  Ozil
38    Aguero
37    Mata
36    Martial
35    Carroll
35    Sanchez
34    Fernandinho
32    Benteke

few on the list were probably worth it but some of the prices are shocking.
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Postby Reg » Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:03 am

This madness will not stop until Sky stop pumping in the money.
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Postby ethanr » Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:22 am

I've never heard of Martial, and I don't think I had heard of Fernandinho at the time he was purchased. I think Aguero and Sanchez are probably the only two on that list anywhere near worth what they were paid for.

It makes you wonder where the game is going. I mean, where will the money come from? In 5 years, what will somebody who is the caliber of Suarez go for? What will somebody go for that is the caliber of Sterling? If it's 50 now, who knows how high it can go. I mean it can only get so high, can't it?
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Postby aCe' » Wed Sep 02, 2015 1:29 pm

I dont think theres a club in world football that has wasted more money than we did over the past 10 years or so. We might only have 2 or 3 names in a top 15 list, but I'm sure we would have dominated the 10-20mill list.

First, you have to define what a poor buy is. For me, it''s a player who was brought in for more than 6-7mill, wasnt good enough/didnt contribute enough and was sold at a significant loss (percentage-wise of his transfer fee)/ doesn't feature regularly at present.

Liverpool:
 
Adam Lallana £25,000,000.00
Lazar Marković £20,000,000.00
Dejan Lovren £20,000,000.00
Divock Origi £10,000,000.00
Alberto Moreno £12,000,000.00
Mario Balotelli £16,000,000.00
Luis Alberto £6,800,000.00
Iago Aspas £7,000,000.00
Tiago Ilori £7,000,000.00
Mamadou Sakho £18,000,000.00 
Joe Allen £15,000,000.00
Charlie Adam £7,000,000.00
Stewart Downing £20,000,000.00
Sebastian Coates £7,000,000.00
Andrew Carroll £35,000,000.00
Alberto Aquilani £17,000,000.00
Andrea Dossena £7,000,000.00
Robbie Keane £19,000,000.00
Ryan Babel £11,500,000.00
Jermaine Pennant £6,700,000.00

Total of close to 300mill. I've excluded players who have cost less than 6mill (your Poulsens) and players we bought, flopped, but were moved on for a fee comparable to what we paid (Borini, Meireles, etc.)

Manutd have a much shorter list:

Fellaini
Zaha
Bebe
Anderson
Hargreaves

You could argue for the inclusion of the likes of Berbatov & Nani but both played significant parts in championship winning sides so you'd be clutching at straws there.

Chelsea:

Torres
Marin
Moses
Meireles
Boulehrouz


Man City:

Caballero
Jovetic (arguable since he is out on loan and could fetch a fee similar to what was paid)
Sinclair
Savic
Santa Cruz
Adebayor
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Robinho (arguable, he was a statement signing and opened the door to top class players joining them)
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Postby Reg » Wed Sep 02, 2015 2:05 pm

20 million for Downing.... OMG......
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Postby redshade » Wed Sep 02, 2015 7:35 pm

As the price keeps steeping up im sure by next couple of years the 100 mill record will be toppled.

20-30 mill will be for average players, happening anyway.
Player with so called "potential" will be sold 50+ mill.

Madness to say the least.
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Postby leeroy74 » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:44 am

I wonder if a 'capping' system was introduced it'd work?

Maximum price for a player can not top £10m
Minimum price for a player can not go below £1m

then grade the players on a 1 to 10 system. Clubs would then know that a player is a grade 9 therefore would cost them £9m.

Do the same with wages, your earnings are based on your grade scale. A grade 1 player earns £10k a week, a grade 10 player would earn £100k a week.

simplify it.
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Postby redshade » Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:35 pm

Interesting idea, that way clubs would not be spalshing out ridiculous sums.
Also a band system (grade) should be set for wages, kind of similar to the NHS.
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Postby mart » Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:17 pm

If you really want to cap something it should be the clubs income. Place a cap on ticket prices, reduce the extreme costs for the TV-rights, reduce income from champions league etc. Make football more of a sport again.

The problem is that the big clubs will never allow something like that to happen, so we just have to expect even higher ticket prices and more expensive transfer fees.
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