Watford reject £37.5m Shanghai bid for Odion Ighalo

GazTheLegend said:
Sounds about right :lol:
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Well, the problem is that no PL club needs a player that costs that much.
And in the championship or lower league your value will be assessed differently.
 
vk20legend said:
Can someone tell me how the Chinese league is able to afford this much on players?!

Is the league backed by the government or something?! Who's funding these crazy deals?!
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Chinese food is really popular around the world.
 
If I could do my life over again, I'd move to England and work my ass off to become a Premier League fullback.
 
Rooney is the obvious one, but do we have any other players we could sell to China? my thinking is we are trying to get all our signings in place before we start selling, and then we'll likely be looking to raise a few quid to cover a chunk of our incoming players.

Ashley Young for £25 million, Fellaini for £40 m, or much as I doubt he'd be up for it Mata must go for 50 m+ given the figures these Chinese clubs are willing to spend, reckon Woodward will be all our this when the selling begins.
 
I'm not 100% in the get Rooney out camp but from a financial point of view, it makes perfect sense to offer him to a Chinese club.

The only problem is, I don't think Rooney would be interested, he's wealthy enough as it is. He wouldn't uproot his family to move to China.
 
Can a club force a player to leave? I was in the keep Rooney camp but if we can get £40 million or more then it's a no brainer we have to sell.
 
It's not China I'm concerned for. But what the hell is wrong with Watford. No team in their right mind would reject such a bid. Especially when they can reinvest to buy some top players from Italy and Spain and then use the TV money to fund some very high wages
 
TrustInJanuzai said:
Can a club force a player to leave? I was in the keep Rooney camp but if we can get £40 million or more then it's a no brainer we have to sell.
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Can't force him to leave as their under contract, but could tell him don't sign for them you will spend next season in the U21
 
UweBein said:
one billion population is a hell of a bunch of potential customers. Should football reach something like 100 million fans in China, then it will be absolutely buzzing to play over there. However I don't know anything about the actual interest.

But, yeah football is also a great way to blind the minds of people. It never worked in the SSSR though, since their teams weren't that successful. But it has worked pretty well to some extent in Greece, Italy, Croatia.
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Noam Chomsky once said that professional sports is used by the elites of the world to control some of the population.
 
Bet you Rooney and Colleen wouldn't want to live in China, no chance they move their for any sum of money.

How much is Hulk earning?
 
I'm pretty certain a bid for Rooney has already been made from Chinese club. He would be one of the big names they'd want.
 
anant said:
It's not China I'm concerned for. But what the hell is wrong with Watford. No team in their right mind would reject such a bid. Especially when they can reinvest to buy some top players from Italy and Spain and then use the TV money to fund some very high wages
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Strikers are hard to find. Crystal Palace are trying to get Benteke for 25 million and you want Watford to sell a player who got them 15 premier league goals. Imagine they sell him and then fail to replace him, it could mean relegation for them.
 
anant said:
It's not China I'm concerned for. But what the hell is wrong with Watford. No team in their right mind would reject such a bid. Especially when they can reinvest to buy some top players from Italy and Spain and then use the TV money to fund some very high wages
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Strikers are hard to find. Crystal Palace are trying to get Benteke for 25 million and you want Watford to sell a player who got them 15 premier league goals. Imagine they sell him and then fail to replace him, it could mean relegation for them.
 
The only reason I could think of why they would refuse an offer like that is because they are fairly certain that the Chinese will come back with an even bigger offer.
 
In that case surely we can get at least £40m for Rooney. Would he feck off to China is another story.
 
GJNJ said:
I'd be all for cashing in on him but do you think Rooney would go to China even for a shed load of cash? He doesn't strike me as the willing to travel type fella and not someone who would want to adapt to another culture.
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This! He got more than enough money already and seems like a family person, who wants to stay at his home town. Don't think he wants his kids to move to China and leave all behind for 2 seasons. He doesn't need the additional money, United is paying him enough already. Would be a big surprise if he leaves for China.
 
Twigginater said:
Makes sense for them to turn it down. premier league clubs are getting an absolute fortune at the moment, having a player like him should mean they stay in the division which is worth 100s of millions. its great to see, hope more and more smaller premier league clubs get better and better.
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Even with the new deal it is still a LOT of money for Watford especially with the falling pound. And there is no guarantee that Ighalo is worth that amount. He was terrible in La Liga, scored 8 goals in 3 seasons. Heck he scored only 5 goals in the spanish segunda division. It's true he has done much better in premier league with 15 goals in his first season but he could have just encountered some good form. Hard to believe he has suddenly become a better player at 27 years of age. Maybe he will prove me wrong but chances are more likely he will struggle this season.
 
the hea said:
The only reason I could think of why they would refuse an offer like that is because they are fairly certain that the Chinese will come back with an even bigger offer.
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That would be the only logic.

Only there is no logic.......37.5M for Ighalo? Rejected as well.

I think the idea that he can't be replaced is mental as well. Do they have any faith in their scouts? I could understand the Deeney rejection, he's Mr Watford after all, but this one is pure madness
 
Tbh living in a big city like Shangai for 2 years with shedloads of money would be fecking amazing.
 
Aki_United said:
This! He got more than enough money already and seems like a family person, who wants to stay at his home town. Don't think he wants his kids to move to China and leave all behind for 2 seasons. He doesn't need the additional money, United is paying him enough already. Would be a big surprise if he leaves for China.
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You know his first question will be when weighing up his options. Do they do chips?

I think if any player of our that would be up for it would probably be Mata. Not about the money so much but seems like he might like to try the cultural journey and all that. It doesn't seem like he will be getting in the Spanish squad anymore. They would love his blogs.
 
This is crazy. Someone offered £30m for Troy Fecking Deeney?? What version of FM in which someone has altered the stats of Watford players is this I've fallen into??
 
Don't know what's more mental, the fact that average players are getting these crazy offers or the fact that Watford keeps turning them down.
 
Looking at bids like this must make the Dippers wish that one of the China's football clubs will come in with a crazy offer for Balotelli.
 
The money in football these days is disgusting. £37,5 million for Ighalo?! 20 years ago Newcastle bought Shearer for the world record fee of £15 million, the inflation has been insane in football.
 
Lurpak99 said:
The money in football these days is disgusting. £37,5 million for Ighalo?! 20 years ago Newcastle bought Shearer for the world record fee of £15 million, the inflation has been insane in football.
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To be fair, the world record transfer 20 years before Shearer was £1.75m. When compared to Bale's fee of £86m, the jump is actually quite similar over 20 years.
 
vk20legend said:
Can someone tell me how the Chinese league is able to afford this much on players?!

Is the league backed by the government or something?! Who's funding these crazy deals?!
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UweBein said:
one billion population is a hell of a bunch of potential customers. Should football reach something like 100 million fans in China, then it will be absolutely buzzing to play over there. However I don't know anything about the actual interest.
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It's crazy the money they are throwing into expansion kinda out of nowhere. Yes, they are still riding their economic marvel, have the largest population in the world and their chairman wants to increase the profile of Chinese football, but I wonder if their clubs are sustainable. Heady times there.
 
It's not so much Watford turning down the money , from what I read they tried to persuade Ighalo to go but he refused saying he wants to stay in the premiership.

It is interesting to think about would you move to a place you didn't want to go because you got offered loads of money?

Maybe he has family here and doesn't want to uproot them ... Maybe he still feels he can join a bigger club in which case all power to him wanting to prove himself rather than filling his pockets
 
RexHamilton said:
To be fair, the world record transfer 20 years before Shearer was £1.75m. When compared to Bale's fee of £86m, the jump is actually quite similar over 20 years.
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The world record yes, but the inflation on average players is insane. You don't think £37,5m for Ighalo is over the top?
 
flappyjay said:
Strikers are hard to find. Crystal Palace are trying to get Benteke for 25 million and you want Watford to sell a player who got them 15 premier league goals. Imagine they sell him and then fail to replace him, it could mean relegation for them.
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Completely agree with this and Watford for not letting go of a striker who has had a good season in the EPL. Market is very inflated, especially for EPL so it does not make sense to sell a proven striker and ending up buying a striker for the same or nearly same amount who might or might not have EPL experience and may turn out to be a risk.
 
anant said:
It's not China I'm concerned for. But what the hell is wrong with Watford. No team in their right mind would reject such a bid. Especially when they can reinvest to buy some top players from Italy and Spain and then use the TV money to fund some very high wages
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Apparently he simply does not want to move to China so demanded they reject it outright
 
Stacks said:
Apparently he simply does not want to move to China so demanded they reject it outright
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Ah that makes sense. Also goes on to show that money isn't everything, not for everyone.
 
Stacks said:
Apparently he simply does not want to move to China so demanded they reject it outright
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That was my assumption. A quick pay cheque isn't everything if your career disappears into obscurity.
 
Lurpak99 said:
The world record yes, but the inflation on average players is insane. You don't think £37,5m for Ighalo is over the top?
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The average tranfer price tends to rise at a similar rate to the world tranfer record.

It's a big sum, no doubt. But it's a bid coming from China who are trying to promote their league by siging household names. Ighalo had a good season for Watford and the club in China probably reckoned he was an attainable transfer who was also a name from the Premier League.

If it was a club from Europe or another English Club, you wouldn't get Ighalo for less than £30m anyway, because he's that important to Watford. If they sell him and spend the £30m incorrectly they are in real danger of going down. So if you want Ighalo, you're going to have to pay a hefty sum.
 
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