Yeah its pretty sickening in the present economic climate. Nurses and teachers have seen salaries flatline while football just moves further and further out of any rational orbit. It's actually damaging my perception of the sport.
Kylian Mbappé joins PSG on one year loan with option to buy
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Is this real life?
In the beginning, we and Madrid were the ones closely linked. Di Marzio even said we were bewitched.
Might be a lie but even if it were true, we won't be in for him at the quoted prices.
"We should be all over this"
City are just showing off with pep Guardiola.
No way instead focus on the young quality we already have.
Real are destroying the market, now I've heard it all.
This price would make Neymar seem like a bargain. At least with Neymar you get a player who is already World Class and arguably a top 3 player in the world. Mbappe is still all potential and a lot of risk given the fee and pressure that will come with it.
Yeah but Neymar is already half way done with his career whereas Mbappe is just starting. If you extrapolate the ridiculous rise in transfer fees into the next 10 year period, Madrid would be wise to take a stake in Mbappe now rather than attempt to prize him away from another club when he's 24.
Neither looks a bargain in any way but yeah, I'd much rather pay 200mil for Neymar than 160 for Mbappe.
This is why I think people still get too hung up on fees that on the face of it look crazy. This is what players cost now.
How in the hell did you generate those numbers? Figo was £37m and Zidane was £50m at the time.
transfermarkt, must include add ons or something.
I know, just kidding.
The money makes sense to me. We are the elite clubs in the worlds most watched sport. If anything it will continue to rise and explode again when technology allows for another form of distribution.
Maybe every club gets their own rights and charge the global audience 1 Euro per game?
If the EPL continues to grow and starts eating away into other leagues revenues then even this could look like chickenfeed.
Madrid are clearly operating on a sell to buy basis already for example.
Maybe every club gets their own rights and charge the global audience 1 Euro per game?
If the EPL continues to grow and starts eating away into other leagues revenues then even this could look like chickenfeed.
Madrid are clearly operating on a sell to buy basis already for example.
Pogba 89m eh? Bargain.
Sorry, but those examples dont really prove your point. They are all world class players and time definately proved them to be worth that money.
What brings prices up are average players with big prices, like Fellaini, Andy Carrol, etc,etc,etc.
Why would that annoy me?
Real also wasted a lot of money around that time too. Big money for not so big players and not giving some players enough time and or/shifting them off to move onto the next shiny new toy.
Each player was a world record fee at there time of transfer as the price for top players increase the so does the price of average(squad) players. Fellani was pennies compared to what people have to pay now for an average squad player so your point mean nothing merely an after effect of the market being inflated yet again by Real Madrid in 2013.
Pep is the Muppet King!
Madrid are hardly destroying the market. In the last two or three years they've turned into the most smartest big club of them all even defeating Bayern in that aspect.
Probably going by today's conversion rate as the transfers were €60m and €75m.
Haven't Madrid already raised around half of €180m from selling players?
It's not like Madrid have conjured up this money from mysterious circumstances. I don't see it as much different from us spending huge amounts, we spend a lot because we make a lot. If you factor in the players sold then the net cost is around €90m
Don't talk about spend, talk about net spend.
It's not like Madrid have conjured up this money from mysterious circumstances. I don't see it as much different from us spending huge amounts, we spend a lot because we make a lot. If you factor in the players sold then the net cost is around €90m
Don't talk about spend, talk about net spend.
Because we won't give Neymar those kinds of wages. We did try last summer, but he ultimately chose to stay at barcelona
Which has its own risks and hence different from galactico policy, so keeping world class proven talents in prime age becomes easier.
Looks like they've converted all the transfer fees to Euros and then converted them back to £'s at the current exchange rate.
Rio's transfer was apparently £39m. Nonsense.
Mbappe cost €180m
Mbappe cost the same as three top quality players.
Mbappe cost a lot more than nothing.
If this happens, one of the striking things is the sheer amount of money Monaco has generated. In the Guardian it says they'd have raked in 300 mil € in the window (in sales, not net spend for our resident Scousers).
If we consider Martial's fee, and that they'd probably get at least 100 mil € if they sold Fabinho and Lemar that would be almost half a billion € in sales. Or, one Neymar
I'm not even sure the entire club is valued at half a billion euros.
Staggering.
Consider this from May:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/05/31/32-valuable-clubs-world-football/ac-milan/
Forbes doesn't even list Monaco in the 25 Most Valuable European Football Clubs from May 2017.
500 mil € is more than they valued:
Everton
Roma
Inter Milan
The value of the whole bloody club!!
We are witnessing madness.
If we consider Martial's fee, and that they'd probably get at least 100 mil € if they sold Fabinho and Lemar that would be almost half a billion € in sales. Or, one Neymar
I'm not even sure the entire club is valued at half a billion euros.
Staggering.
Consider this from May:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/05/31/32-valuable-clubs-world-football/ac-milan/
Forbes doesn't even list Monaco in the 25 Most Valuable European Football Clubs from May 2017.
500 mil € is more than they valued:
Everton
Roma
Inter Milan
The value of the whole bloody club!!
We are witnessing madness.
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I think the problem is that he is just starting his career. If he stays at Monaco and has a down year that prize tag could be cut in half next summer, if he stays and duplicates this year, is there really room for it to increase next summer? 160 mil would be just as crazy next summer. PSG know exactly what they're getting on the field and from an off the field point of view, Neymar is global superstar and marketing machine.
Wtf
Imagine if you applied that logic to everything else. Your rent is basically free.
F*ck me, you should handle our Brexit negotiations with your top notch understanding of economics.
It's actually completely in line with what is happening in the wider economy: the 1% and 0.1% are seeing quite literally ALL the growth, and everyone else are stuck in stagnation.
"Fella, talk about net spend. Don't talk about spend, talk about net spend"
The problem with this deal if it happens that it'll push the transfer market to a new land. If Mbappe was sold for 160-180m, then it's fair any club will ask for 100m at least for any superstar, and 50m will be the cheapest transfers or so.
It'll be really hard to bring superstars from now on if this deal is concluded with this price tag and the best option will be to invest in young talents rather than paying 100m for each superstar each summer.
It'll be really hard to bring superstars from now on if this deal is concluded with this price tag and the best option will be to invest in young talents rather than paying 100m for each superstar each summer.
Monaco is just having a ball these days.
That Griezmann release clause is going to start looking real tasty.
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