Why are average players being bought for huge money this summer?

There’s too much money in the game, it’s gone beyond what it was meant to be. It hasn’t made football better, it’s caused inflated fees and wages.
 
Not many of the fees in this thread are unusual. It’s surprising fans of a team who spent big money of strikers who score around 10 goals a season are commenting.

All this thread has revealed is most of you don’t watch outside of united.
 
Not many of the fees in this thread are unusual. It’s surprising fans of a team who spent big money of strikers who score around 10 goals a season are commenting.

All this thread has revealed is most of you don’t watch outside of united.
Nobody has watched that Dutch player who Liverpool sold for mega money because he’s never done anything

And if you say you have, you’re either lying or have way too much time on your hands
 
Omari Kellyman who Chelsea desperately needed to play left wing for them this season apparently is looking to go on loan.

But who knows.. he could play for Schalke and Mainz then end up being sold for £45m in two years time.

The market is clearly rigged but it looks like we might enter it if we manage to sell Sancho to Chelsea.
 
Not many of the fees in this thread are unusual. It’s surprising fans of a team who spent big money of strikers who score around 10 goals a season are commenting.

All this thread has revealed is most of you don’t watch outside of united.
To be fair it's ok to not watch a sport outside of the team you follow. I have other things in my life besides football and basically never watch it other than United, England and local teams, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I don't understand these people who seem to know every player in teams not even in this country.
 


£25m?! Not even close to a starter for club or country. I despair.

To be fair, we sold Henderson for £15m + add-ons, who was then even lower in the GK hierarchy at both club and country. When some randos like James Trafford moved for similar amount, then £25m for Ramsdale is not too outrageous.

English players are overpriced, moreso for transfers between PL clubs. That’s why you don’t see us getting any English players or players from a PL club this summer, and that’s not for the lack of trying (Branthwaite, etc.)