We also agreed an 80 mil Euro fee for a largely unknown Martial at the time too.
We've been as guilty as anyone for the current inflation.
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We've been as guilty as anyone for the current inflation.
Remember him coming off at Anfield one last time and people thought he looked like his usual self? Good times
Exactly, I'm yet to see the team that sold their best player for big money and improved as a result. Ronaldo?Suarez and Sterling? Bale and Modric? Cesc and Van Persie?
That was included an epic amount of add ons, though.
Meh, if you want to point some real fingers look at PSG and Neymar. Either way, the market was always heading in this direction regardless of United.
They've already spent it.
RM having to do a fundraiser to fund their next galacticos like Hazard and Dybala might be the opening we need to snap up Kovacic
But I thought they were suing Nike lol?
Cringeworthy
The fees is 106m plus addons which are trophy related and appearances related.
Finally I'll be able to fully enjoy him play, well in lad.
It is amazing when he still produced the good for them this season and they have gone and signed an ultimate traitor in VVD.Burning his shirt.
This
I'm not saying PSG aren't at fault. I'm saying we were just as much a part of the problem.
Already spent on Keita and Van Djik
Correct, and it also puts pressure on the manager and the board to sign the right players to improve.
Also if they target players, say Lemar or Mahrez, the selling clubs know they are desperate and cash rich, so they can ask for more money. It's a viscous circle.
Which decent player do Southampton have?
Selling in mid season doesn't add up at all. He'll be fantastic for Barca though. Top, top player.
Nah.... they'll go for more top class players like the Ox.Liverpool have made a fortune out of this. Shame they'll only go and waste it.
They'll sell Bale for £90M to us. Hazard will only have two years on his contract so if he refuses to sign a new deal, Chelsea will find it tough to hold out for that record fee and will end up having to sell for something in the region of €160-180M.
You're right, they have largely stayed away from massive signings but if Hazard is who Zidane wants, that is who they'll try and get.
And there's no way Klopp said all that. His English isn't that good.
They can pay around £80m for Lanzini now.
Keegan, Rush, Owen, Torres.
.....Sessions.
I don't think we have any role in what happened. Martial's initial fee was 37m, similar to what City paid for Sane a year later, and Pogba's deal was only 5m more than Bale's deal.
He left. It happens, wtf are monologues and statements for ? They really love to make a drama out of everything don't they ?
? They really love to make a drama out of everything don't they ?It's Liverpool football club. They love that sort of thing.Wow, that statement is just.. wow. United sold a better player in Ronaldo and it was just a short and sweet statement
Part of the problem maybe, but not a key driver. Either way, who cares? The football bubble is what it is.
With regards to the bubble, I'm genuinely worried that we will be priced out signing some players now. We don't have an unlimited budget. We saw it last Summer when Inter tried to take us for a ride. That may become a new theme.
I dont like Barca, but at least now I dont need to hate amazing player like Coutinho and can enjoy watching him happily.
He left. It happens, wtf are monologues and statements for
To be fair there's a bit of shit going on with the Holgate-Firmino sitaution so they'd probably rather give some of their own twaddle to the media.
Yes. But that was 36 mil then. When that was still a massive fee for a first teamer. It was a gigantic fee for a relative unknown.
I always thought the Bale fee was overpriced. It sounds weird now. But there was a time when the fees we see now weren't even plausible.
I partly agree, but then again that would apply to basically every other club as well, apart from the oil clubs. Financially United are still top dogs when it comes to the rest of the pack. And the oil clubs can't buy every single top player in the world.
I like your plan.I would add a #freeKane
If Mbappe is worth 150m, then Coutinho is comfortably worth 142m.
Saw talks that Barca were interested in bringing back Thiago... if they manage to bring him back, then they'd go back to probably having the best midfield around. Coutinho as Iniesta's replacement (stylistically, obviously not quite as good), thiago as Xavi's then Busquets still there. They'll probably get Griezmann for Suarez too in the summer.
Sucks for Liverpool though. What they should do is ignore a Coutinho replacement, and work on their goalkeeper, defense and defensive mid. After that, look for that Coutinho replacement. So I kinda do hope they just spend 100m on Lemar, as that won't really make them stronger all around.
Sucks for Liverpool though. What they should do is ignore a Coutinho replacement, and work on their goalkeeper, defense and defensive mid. After that, look for that Coutinho replacement. So I kinda do hope they just spend 100m on Lemar, as that won't really make them stronger all around.
ffsSo Andy Carroll for 70 mil then?
Exactly!
A lot of people are overlooking this. Plus add even more for the January premium
please no. Although it would make sense. Madrid always fund their big signings by getting some sucker to pay for the players they no longer want. That's how they signed James. The 2009 splurge was also funded in the same way.
Yeah, really strange times
noo, please God, no!Martial was £36m, with 2 clauses of £7m each likely to be hit taking the total to £50m in the future. Hardly crazy and comprable to Sterling and Torres in previous years.
Pogba was what, £90m? Similar to Ronaldo, Suarez and Bale, and a fair bit cheaper than what Neymar actually cost Barca. Not expensive or out of the norm at all for one of the best midfielders in the world, and young at that.
The ones that have skewed the market are PSG. We're nowhere near as guilty as them - our transfers have largely still been normal. Them spending £200m on Neymar and £160m on Mbappe has caused Barca to have a surplus of cash, leading to it being branded about now for Coutinho etc. Personally I believe once all PSG money's been used up by each receiving club, we'll return to the top players being sold for around £100m.