How much are they worth?

Neil Thomson

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There's been a lot of talk of clearouts, and selling to buy, but imo our squad must be depreciating in value now that a lot of the players are growing older, not to mention that the market has declined as the money dries up in the game. So, how much are our players worth now?
 
If you go on current form, not loads

I read a post the other day that said Phil Neville was worth £6million. I'm sorry, no way. £3m tops.

I would say our three biggest assets are Becks, Seba and Ruud.

Becks is probably worth £22m, give or take, but none of the teams who could afford him would want him (I'm talking here of Real or Barca, although Van Gaal was quoted in last Sunday's Observer as being a big Becks fan).

Seba would fetch around £20 mill if an Italian or Spanish giant came in for him, and Ruud about £23-25m.

They would be followed by Rio for about £18-20m

You could get no more than about £12-15m for Giggsy, £8-9m for Ole, about £5m for Barthez, £8-10m for Keano. Everyone else would be hovering around the £5m mark I reckon.
 
I doubt Scholes and Butt are only worth £5m...
+ - used to indicate rising or falling
Barthez 5m -
Carroll 2m +
Ricardo 3m -

Phil 4m -
Gary 7m -
Silvestre 8m

O'Shea 10m +
Wes 15m +
Rio 30m +
Blanc 0
May 0

Beckham 35m -
Giggs 20m -
Scholes 30m -
Butt 15m +
Keane 8m -
Veron 15m -
Fortune 6m +
Chadwick 2m
Djordjic 1m

Ole 12m -
Ruud 25m +
Forlan 5m -
Webber 2m

TOTAL: 260m
 
They must put a valuation on the playing staff in the plc accounts, anyone know what it is?
 
Its hard to value players in the current market..

But how the feck can Silvesre be valued at 8m when he's out of contract in the summer?
 
OK, I concede that Scholes and Butt are worth more, but £35 mill for Becks, £15m for Brown - come on!

Thing is, it doesn't matter what we perceive as their worth, if we were to sell any of them tomorrow, their sale value would be based on what we would be prepared to accept, but, more importantly, what other teams could afford to pay. No-one could afford to pay £35mill for Becks in a lump sum, and it seems unlikely that Kenyon would sanction an instalment scheme after the Lazio fiasco.

A wave of realism is hitting the football world now, otherwise how could you explain Ronaldo going for 'just' £22m plus a player/£6m after the World Cup he had?

No-one will go for what Zidane, Figo etc went for now, until we get a EuroLeague and the TV money comes flooding back in. As such, clubs are adjusting the worth of their players, apart from the likes of O'Shea or Rooney whose attendant hype inflates their worth.
 
IMO

Barthez 8m -
Carroll 3m +
Ricardo 3m -
Phil 4m -
Gary 7m -
Silvestre 8m

O'Shea 15m +
Wes 12m +
Rio 30m +
Blanc 0
May 0

Beckham 35m -
Giggs 20m -
Scholes 30m -
Butt 12m +
Keane 8m -
Veron 22m -
Fortune 3m +
Chadwick 2m
Djordjic 1m

Ole 10m -
Ruud 35m +
Forlan 5m -
Webber 2m
 
Don't forget that if another club knows you want rid of a player. They're not going to be sold for the 'market value'. Look at Dwight Yorke.
 
Originally posted by MPTutd:
<strong>IMO

Barthez 8m -
Carroll 3m +
Ricardo 3m -
Phil 4m -
Gary 7m -
Silvestre 8m

O'Shea 15m +
Wes 12m +
Rio 30m +
Blanc 0
May 0

Beckham 35m -
Giggs 20m -
Scholes 30m -
Butt 12m +
Keane 8m -
Veron 22m -
Fortune 3m +
Chadwick 2m
Djordjic 1m

Ole 10m -
Ruud 35m +
Forlan 5m -
Webber 2m</strong><hr></blockquote>

Keane 8m!!!

And Ruud £25m more than Ole?? I don't think so - I know Ruud has a few more years left in him but they aren't that far apart.

Doubt you'd get £22m for Veron either at the moment.
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Barthez 5m -
Carroll 1m +
Ricardo 1m -
Phil 3m -
Gary 6m -
Silvestre 6m

O'Shea 7m +
Wes 8m +
Rio 18m +
Blanc 0
May 0

Beckham 20m -
Giggs 15m -
Scholes 20m -
Butt 8m +
Keane 10m -(age)
Veron 20m -
Fortune 3m +
Chadwick 2m
Djordjic 1m

Ole 10m -
Ruud 20m
Forlan 5m -
Webber 2m

prices have come down...
 
I think these figures indicate that if we do want some big names players, then we'd have to sell a lot of the squad players to do so - which would only compound our current situation. We'd really need to sell off kids that we don't want and which have other youths coming through in that position (Chadwick and Fortune can be replaced by Richardson and Davis) AND sell off a major star. Its going to be very tricky for us if everyone buys cheap off us because of market conditions, but sells expensive to us cos we're Man United.
 
Don't forget that our squad have some of the biggest contracts in the league so difficult to unload hence value comes down. That's exactly what happened with Yorke as he wanted a certain salary and we had to drop our price so Blackburn could afford to pay him.
 
Irrespective of the current value of our players, players' transfer values world-wide are on the decrease. It's like house prices here in the UK. The value of your house may have rocketted and be worth twice as much now than 3 years ago, however, once you've sold and looking to buy everything is more expensive. It's all relative.

The same with the transfer market. Transfer values are coming down. We may sell players for less than a few years ago, but we can also buy players for less.

By the way, only a few teams can afford our top stars. The days of £30 million transfer deals are nearly, if not already, finished.
 
A quite confirm things being - if we don shit this season ... don't even want to think abt it but say we didn't even make it to top 4 ... then you can expect NO ONE will give a damn ... the whole team might just get revamp that I won't be surprised ... Financial considerations will then overwritten all the sentiment, it's just not possible to keep that type of salary payment we are putting up, without CL football .. - a major clear-out is really possible after so many years ... <img src="graemlins/annoyed.gif" border="0" alt="[Annoyed]" />
 
Originally posted by Red Indian Chief Torn Rubber:
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David Beckham: 38-50m
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Originally posted by Red Indian Chief Torn Rubber:
<strong>Gary Neville: 7-10m
David Beckham: 38-50m
Ryan Giggs: 28-35m
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I've heard from a contact that Houllier, Wenger and Robson are prepared to battle it out for the 10m signature of Gary Neville....
 
Yeah but I hear the leading teams in the Swiss transfer market are in a scramble at the prospect of signing Emile Heskey.
 
kf
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posted 19-11-2002 13:21
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They must put a valuation on the playing staff in the plc accounts, anyone know what it is?
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Due to UK acounting law a player can only be given a value to the club based upon their value when last traded upon the open market... this means in practice that Rudd is valued at 18 million as it was his last traded value Veron 28.1 million etc while Giggs, Beckham, Butt, etc are valued according to the official accounts at £0 therefore in answer to your question simply add up what we paid for the squad...
 
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