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Antony | Here we go! €100mill, contract until June 2027, option 'til 2028.
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Has anyone mentioned the fee yet? Seems pricey.
This window has been a mess for every club. It can’t continue with this ridiculous prices. The market will crash. Average player - 50mil from 15-25. Good player 70. Better player/high potential 80+. When does it stop.
Yeah plenty of times, sorry sarcasm
Very early, but at this point I'm guessing the plan for next season is like this:
-------------------------------Striker--------------------------- (Martial)
-Sancho------------------Bruno------------------Antony (Rashford, Garnacho, Elanga, Eriksen)
------------------------------------#8------------------ (Eriksen)
---------------------Casemiro-----------RB----------------- (McTominay, Dalot)
Malacia------Martinez-----Varane------------------ (LB/Alvaro, CB, Lindelof)
---------------------------------GK------------------------------ (Dubravka)
with Cristiano, De Gea, Shaw, Maguire, VDB, Amad, Pellistri and Fred (will want to start somewhere) all leaving.
Tons of wages off the books and we go hard again for Timber or James Justin or another RB comfortable inside helping in midfield, a giant money striker, a cheap LB, Maguire replacement, starting GK who can pass it, and a proper #8. Eriksen gets lots of games as our 2nd choice #8 and #10 and is preferred to Bruno in some games.
Balance looks good. Casemiro helps out the small defenders on his side, the RB and Malacia play in midfield a ton with our wingers on the touchline and lots of space for Bruno work in.
It doesn't stop until club revenues stop following the same trajectory as transfer fees. Players cost this much because clubs can afford it. There's pretty much the same amount of footballers now as there were 30 years ago, the only thing that changes is how much money the clubs have available to them. It isn't some kind of mystery, really. Once they can't come up with any more ways to monetize new aspects of the club, and can no longer raise the prices on tickets and TV packages and merchandise, the transfer fees will level off. With the world rapidly heading towards a recession, we might be close to that point.
Probably won’t stop considering the level of inflation everywhere.
I would think the pricing will keep at these levels for a few years until someone disrupts it again, just like PSG did for Niemar and Mbappe.
I think the PL's market potential hasn't been fully maximised yet though it seems that way in the UK market.
The US, Indian and Chinese markets are far from being fully exploited. The contracts aren't linear and so the revenues from these markets won't be either -- but the trajectory is still in its upward trend. The Premier League is expected to earn more from its overseas rights than from its domestic UK TV deal for the first time this season. The League's revenue is set to rise 10 per cent to £6bn this season with the soaring value of international TV rights.
Meanwhile, Europe’s top leagues are struggling to keep up. According to Deloitte’s annual football finance report, revenue at Spain’s La Liga is projected to remain flat this year at €3.7bn, while Germany’s Bundesliga will enjoy a 16 per cent boost to €3.6bn.
So yes, the transfer market hasn't it its ceiling yet.
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Even this is taking our rose-tinted glasses to the extreme...
Great signing, the price paid is a lot more than we could have bought him for a few weeks ago but glad we got him for ETH. Hopefully we can add a CM ST and RB if the budget allows.
Not to mention Gibbs-White moving to Nottingham Forest for £50m. Our fan base would always look for something to moan about regardless of evidence that we're doing our bit to improve the team.
His dribbling style looks effortless and he's got a nice burst of acceleration. I'm looking forward to having a player in our team who will take players on again, it's felt like a really long time since we've had that. Let's hope the price tag doesn't weigh too heavy on him.
I didn't want to try to take credit or anything but shit got serious right after I sent a dick pic to the Ajax information desk.
This is one of the craziest posts I’ve seen on this forum recently
Having a hard time gauging his pace from highlight videos. Is he actually fast or is he closer to someone like Sancho in speed?
Let’s hope not. Sancho should start at LW. Rashford can come in for a change of pace in the final 15-20 mins when Sancho is running on empty.
Antony and Sancho are going to be the next Ribery and Robben.
Zaha had AWB as his bete noire at training. But Antony will have Malacia every day for training!!!
He’s creative ability and enthusiasm to take players on very much reminds me of a ping Ronaldo in his first season with us.
For that reason, I would love to see Ronnie stay with us (as a humble super sub) to provide him mentorship
For that reason, I would love to see Ronnie stay with us (as a humble super sub) to provide him mentorship
I am worried about that. I think Garnancho has potential to end up as good as Sancho or Antony, if not better.
His contract has a few years left and does not expire at the end of the season
Although this might seems to be the case from footage we’ve seen, his dribbling numbers isn’t really that impressive though (avg 1.8 dribble last season, 1.4 the season before). His dribbling numbers is more comparable to the older poacher version of Ronaldo rather than the younger winger version. I always wonder why.
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I haven't watched enough of the actual player to know if he is actually worth it, but biggest thing for me, is it looks like we have a proper attacking right winger again. Hopefully means that he makes the team as a whole more dynamic, as we can drive attacks down both flanks, instead of the focus on the left from previous seasons.
Since he is already nearly half as costly as peak Neymar, maybe it’s not unreasonable to expect him to be half as good as peak Neymar too.
Did you adjust for inflation?
If having huge numbers is not a pointer for anything, what's having poor numbers?
The only thing I get excited about is Ajax wanted to keep him even with the huge offer. It was only because Antony went public about wanting to leave that made it possible.
For those who keep on saying about his 8 goals thing, let us not forget he did miss last couple of months through injury that too when he was on top form. I think had he stayed fit he would have reached close to 20 goals in all competitions. For a 22 year ols attacker who plays mostly as a winger is a wonderful return.
Err… is it like saying Antony will have little effect on Rashford, other than getting him benched?
I tend to think that discussions about what a player is ‘worth’ are, while sometimes interesting, kind of beside the point. Money has no connection with any reality in terms of value: in capitalist societies, things are ‘worth’ what people will pay for them, no more, no less, for good or ill.
With regard to Anthony, I hope he provides what we’re missing: a little X factor, some magic. Feck the price, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, point here clearly is that Antony plays a different position and doesn't directly replace Rashford. If Rashford is not even better at his best position than right winger Sancho playing on the left - that is not on Antony
That would be Nkunku, I hope.
Maybe we should all thank Brentford for doing us a favor. It all changed after that match.Casemiro and Antony for 150 mil, unbelievable
Long journey that was, i remember those times when we were a team to be linked with Arnautovic and Rabiot for 20….. like It was 3 weeks ago. Time flies.
"Right winger Sancho" sells him a little short considering he is just as effective on the left, if not more so.
I think he prefers the right wing, but yes he can ply on the left, maybe even better than left winger Rashford so - not gonna argue. Just saying we signed him as a right winger but now bought another right winger who is clearly going to be the starter
Brentford and Sir Jim Ratcliff saying he was gonna buy the club. Let's not forget that
I think point being Salah didn’t cost that much when he has poor numbers at younger age, while every players developed differently, which makes it impossible to assume a player would develop the same as another player who has similar stats as him at certain age.
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