Gonzalo Higuain | BBC: Joins Juventus

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I think he'll be great for them, but it's going to take some to justify that price tag. Around 45 goals (35 in the league and 10 in the cups) should do the trick, I guess.
 
Nicklas said:
I think he'll be great for them, but it's going to take some to justify that price tag. Around 45 goals (35 in the league and 10 in the cups) should do the trick, I guess.
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If they win the CL in his time there it would have been worth it.
 
Improves the weak spot in our team. A partnership of him and Dybala will scare any team.
 
Will Juve go 3-4-3 next season
Buffon
Barzagli* Bonucci Chiellini
Alves Pjanic Khedira* Sandro
Dybala Higuain Pjaca

*Benatia and Marchisio other likely options
 
BlueCelery said:


Gonna post this video seems there are a lot of people on here who seem to think Higuain's a goalhanger instead of a complete Center Forward & stupidly judge him off a handful of games for Argentina.

He's an incredible passer, his hold up play is the best in the world & he has the technique/intelligence to link up with other players. Not many attacks break down when Higuain's in possession. Where he shines the most is his finishing, like Van Nistelrooy he has the uncanny ability to score from the most acute angles, the most clinical striker in the World for me.
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That's a very fluffy way of saying he's a quality classic #9: good hold-up play, great finishing and a reference point for the attack. I'm a fan of Higuain and he showed right at the beginning of his Madrid career that he was more than a poacher given he was an important part of the team playing on the right wing, but to call him an incredible passer is incredibly generous.
 
XdanielredX said:
Remember when:

5k-10k per week was for decent promise youth level/young players.

30k-40k per week was for good players.

60k-70k per week was top players.

80k-100k per week was for the absolute elite players.

That was literally only like 5-10 years ago.

Now:

35k - 45k per week is standard for youth showing decent promise.

60k-70k per week is now standard for good players.

120k-150k per week is now standard for top players.

200k-300k per week is now standard for the absolute elite players.


What the feck.....

Same can go for transfers...

32m used to be the amount you would pay for the very best.

Now 32m will get you a youth player with decent promise if you are lucky.

Hmm...
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It's all relative though. Football is getting more and more popular and therefore getting more money in TV deals and sponsorship deals etc. If there is more money in a sport then naturally the athletes get more money and it costs more to obtain their services. F1 drivers and NBA players get a lot of money too if I am not mistaken.
 
XdanielredX said:
Remember when:

5k-10k per week was for decent promise youth level/young players.

30k-40k per week was for good players.

60k-70k per week was top players.

80k-100k per week was for the absolute elite players.

That was literally only like 5-10 years ago.

Now:

35k - 45k per week is standard for youth showing decent promise.

60k-70k per week is now standard for good players.

120k-150k per week is now standard for top players.

200k-300k per week is now standard for the absolute elite players.


What the feck.....

Same can go for transfers...

32m used to be the amount you would pay for the very best.

Now 32m will get you a youth player with decent promise if you are lucky.

Hmm...
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Money in the sport is going to the ones most important to it. As it should be.
 
In the world of mental transfers, this is a very mental transfer.

Good luck to him, and congrats to Juve on their now guarenteed 2016-2017 Scudetto
 
Great piece of business by Juventus if they get Gabigol too...

Now give us our player back!!
 
Imagine they did keep Pogba. They would be unreal.

Massively overpriced but I suppose a fan of United can't really complain about that at the moment :lol:
 
Higuain is nothing to do with the Pogba money IMO. Yes Pogba may get sold soon after and people will assume they used his cash to buy Higuain but i imagine they're paying for Hig over 2-3-4 installments.

So even over 2yrs it is £38m a yr, not that much for a club like Juventus. Thus, Pogba deal not linked
 
XdanielredX said:
Remember when:

5k-10k per week was for decent promise youth level/young players.

30k-40k per week was for good players.

60k-70k per week was top players.

80k-100k per week was for the absolute elite players.

That was literally only like 5-10 years ago.

Now:

35k - 45k per week is standard for youth showing decent promise.

60k-70k per week is now standard for good players.

120k-150k per week is now standard for top players.

200k-300k per week is now standard for the absolute elite players.


What the feck.....

Same can go for transfers...

32m used to be the amount you would pay for the very best.

Now 32m will get you a youth player with decent promise if you are lucky.

Hmm...
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Showing your youth there... It's always been like this. In fact if anything the rate has slowed down:

It's 17 years since Vieri went to Inter for £32m - a third of what we're about to pay for Pogba.

17 years before that the world record was just £3m for Maradonna - a tenth of Vieri's fee.

17 years before that the record was £250,000 and 17 years before that it was £30,000.

So really we should be looking at £300m transfer by now.
 
Meh, they will still not win the CL and the Serie A title was in the bag anyway. Just give us Pogba now.
 
salford_ said:
Higuain is nothing to do with the Pogba money IMO. Yes Pogba may get sold soon after and people will assume they used his cash to buy Higuain but i imagine they're paying for Hig over 2-3-4 installments.

So even over 2yrs it is £38m a yr, not that much for a club like Juventus. Thus, Pogba deal not linked
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Transfer fees are only a part of it. There's agent fees and wages as well. The transfer fees and wages of all the players they've bought in will eat up a massive chunk of money. Not only that but if they kept Pogba they'd have to increase his wages too. There's just no way Juventus would be buying Higuain without selling Pogba. I don't buy it for a second.
 
AndyJ1985 said:
Transfer fees are only a part of it. There's agent fees and wages as well. The transfer fees and wages of all the players they've bought in will eat up a massive chunk of money. Not only that but if they kept Pogba they'd have to increase his wages too. There's just no way Juventus would be buying Higuain without selling Pogba. I don't buy it for a second.
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Im not saying they wont sell Pogba, oh no. I am saying they do not need to sell Pogba to fund Higuain
 
Sir A1ex said:
Showing your youth there... It's always been like this. In fact if anything the rate has slowed down:

It's 17 years since Vieri went to Inter for £32m - a third of what we're about to pay for Pogba.

17 years before that the world record was just £3m for Maradonna - a tenth of Vieri's fee.

17 years before that the record was £250,000 and 17 years before that it was £30,000.

So really we should be looking at £300m transfer by now.
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Which is how much a player like Maradonna would cost in today's market, yes. Messi would easily go for that much, at least 2/3 years ago anyway.
 
salford_ said:
Im not saying they wont sell Pogba, oh no. I am saying they do not need to sell Pogba to fund Higuain
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I think they do. They've spent €150m this season. They never spend that much and I think they have knowing their net spend is a more manageable €40m.

Aren't the big Italian clubs struggling for money or is that incorrect?
 
salford_ said:
Higuain is nothing to do with the Pogba money IMO. Yes Pogba may get sold soon after and people will assume they used his cash to buy Higuain but i imagine they're paying for Hig over 2-3-4 installments.

So even over 2yrs it is £38m a yr, not that much for a club like Juventus. Thus, Pogba deal not linked
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They've signed many other players too. Juve don't have that sort of profit every year to pay it off like we can. Selling deadwood won't cover all these players.
 
Adam-Utd said:
They've signed many other players too. Juve don't have that sort of profit every year to pay it off like we can. Selling deadwood won't cover all these players.
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We still have a lot of sales to make. Only half has to be paid this Summer so we can afford it.
 
LennonNL said:
Which is how much a player like Maradonna would cost in today's market, yes. Messi would easily go for that much, at least 2/3 years ago anyway.
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Not so sure... the record doesn't jump that much just because of one special player. The other two I mentioned were Christian Vieri and Angelo Sormani - fine players (I actually know nothing about the latter but I presume he was), but hardly Messi level.

I don't think it's ever gone up by much more than 50% in one go (which would be £120m now). For example, Maradonna's transfer beat the £1.8m paid for Rossi 6 years earlier. Ronaldo, who surely does fit that category, was only a 40% increase on the record.

That said, the PL money flooding in is going to get things moving, and once the £100m is broken I'd expect there to be a series of new records over the next few years, which will get us towards £200m relatively quickly.

Things have been strangely stagnant at the top end for a few years. From 1990 to 2001 the record went 12 times. Since then it's only gone 3 times.

Also interesting to note that the last 5 records have all been set by Real, with no other club having held the record since 2000. I'm not sure if their dominance of the market has some stopped other clubs from competing. Hopefully we're about to put an end to that.
 
Now we pull out of the Pogba deal, leaving her begging for more.

What.
 
Sky saying he signed for 75m pounds.
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Vialli_92 said:
We still have a lot of sales to make. Only half has to be paid this Summer so we can afford it.
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We shall see. That's a lot of extra wages in your squad too let's not forget.
 
He will score 30 goals in the league, but cant wait til they play in the CL knockout stages and he bottles it.
 
Sir A1ex said:
That said, the PL money flooding in is going to get things moving, and once the £100m is broken I'd expect there to be a series of new records over the next few years, which will get us towards £200m relatively quickly.
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Totally get ya it's just crazy how there was talk not that long ago of a 1bn pound sale of MANCHESTER UNITED AS A WHOLE, one of if not the most commercially viable and popular clubs on earth. Now we are already talking in a few years a single players transfer fee alone being 1/5th of that...
 
Higuain, Pjanic, Benattia, Dani Alves - pretty good business.

If they lose Pogba - they will probably buy a quality replacement there as well. A window on par with ours.
 
Id take Pogba for £100m over Higuain for £75m every day of the week.
 
I hope he will do well there and score a lot of goals (hopefully not against Madrid in the CL though).
 
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