And there's nothing wrong with hoarding talent. Chelsea managed to get some of the best youngsters in Europe - courtois, de bruyne, lukaku, zouma, Michy, Christiansen etc. Man City spent big on Marlos Moreno, Sane, stone, Gabriel Jesus.
no i'm SAYING you cannot be saying every time a player you think is all that we should have bought him before x or y. as i said for every one you like ten have failed. LFC are not going to find 11 never before unrated gems. LFC needs to do their best same as every club. then you quote CITY... CITY of all clubs you do realise sane cost 37 mil and jesu 27mil and sterling 50 mil... like you do get this don't you? they spent 114 million on 3 players. LFC bought us Mane for 34mil. they funded it by selling benteke. Simple... Matip is on 70k and cost nothing yet still we moan We will buy what we buy and comparing us to arab money or a fluke at leicester that in all likelyhood won't happen again for quite some time is pointless IF you look at dortmund they are hoovering up every young player going and lfc were linked with half the players they bought. we are competing with dortmund for players... not city... nobody but real madird and utd can compete with city.
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and sold them all and bought their own first team... agai.. done of silly oil money... then you talk city again... arab money. stones was 47.5mil.. the worst CB in the league so far. what are you smoking today? you can't be talking mega bucks player buying and hidden gems bought before wolfsurg bought them in the same breath.... nuts. we know at least 3 players turned LFC down last summer. Ousmane Dembélé, Raphaël Guerreiro, Emre Mor... they ALL went to dortmund. every one. So its not as easy as you make out. BTW dortmund spent a lotal of about 30million pounds on them.. if you can't get them you can't get them so bigging deeper down there will only be 5/6 players a year thats really fitting this young player model and if they all go elsewhere? fine... ok..
on the theme of young players i posted at the time Leicester signed him that i would have been happy to have had a punt on him for the reputed £3m fee.
Buying young talent from the lower leagues in this country was something that used to be #standard However, it went out of fashion as clubs chased Carlos Kickaball's from around the globe. I'm pleased to see that some have woken up to the opportunity again. In recent times we've taken Stones, Holgate, Calvert Lewin and now Lookman (who I think is going to become a real star if he keeps his focus) Ok the failure rate amongst this sector is high, but you negate that risk if you do your homework, and that's were great scouting comes in.
Got to agree with MITO here, how are you comparing by young hidden gems and then mentioning city buying young players at STUPID prices. Again for every cheap young and up coming player with potential that makes it, you are getting a lot of **** in there too. Half your team is a great example to that: - Moreno, cheap and upcoming so far a failure - Markovic, major flop - Can, solid player in the team, not a world beater and certainly not at the level of title challenger (yet) - Alberto, gone - Firmino, has been pretty hit and miss - lacking the consistency at the moment to be a great player and he was bought in the expensive category. He could go onto be world class - Gomez, has time but so far been unfortunate with injuries so miss - Grujic, not been given an opportunity yet plus injured - Origi, has time but not fulfilled potential yet - illori, gone - Borini, gone - Coates, gone - Allen, gone The only gems bought before their cost rocketed because of performances have been countinho, suarez and sturridge (unfortunately he's always injured). Everyone else that has been bought has been of the same level and not gone onto the next level. Out of this list, there has definitely been some in there that Jimmy would have recommended as decent buys and taking to the next level. Off the top of my head it would be Origi, Firmino, Markovic, Moreno, Can and maybe Coates. Grujic and Illori i think he would have been happy as prospects.
plus you don't have to worry about them getting used to the country or their wife moaning about the weather. Well that is unless you sign David Unsworth
The point around city is that they are investing in youth. For the same amount of money, should be spending big on a young player with bags of potential or someone who is experienced but of less potential? They spent over £100m on 3 highly talented youngsters when we spent £100m on Benteke, Carroll and Lovren. So again, the original point is - spending £170k a week on Draxler or giving £150k to Lallana.
It's about balance mate. A club with aspirations has to buy some 'finished articles' proven top notch players in their prime. But that needs to be balanced off with buying younger talents who you can develop and will therefore hopefully dramatically increase in value.
Agreed but I don't think we're in a position to buy finished articles unless they're 27 plus and playing mid table. Which is why I think we need to take more risks and spend big on talent.
The point is, apart from Sane who looks a real gem, Jesus who has looked good but been in the league for 2 games and Sterling who they massively overpaid for and is probably worth around 20 million and Stones who is the worse defender i've ever seen... also followed by the following flops who were young and turfed aside like: Mangala - 40m Nastasic - 12m Roberts - 11m Balotelli - 24.5m Alongisde sterling and stones if you got any one of those 6 you'd be spitting feathers about why you are wasting so much on youth who have not achieved anything. Draxler i can agree with you, guys won trophies and was a key part of the German team. Any of those above at them prices and you could end up with Markovic and you wasting all your money
Your recent record on buying such players is mixed to say the least. The key is having the right team doing the recruiting and that's were the best in this area shine.
Price. Why buy John smith from Barnsley for £10m after a handful of games in division 2 when you could buy Johnny Smithino from Spanish team in top division for same amount who has played 50 odd games. Plus teams are under much more pressure to stay in league that need instant results so rather buy finished product rather than try develop an 18 year old.
But you can spend £100m on potential when they aren't coming in to be the star of the team and first team right away. Those 3 players had De Bruyne, Silva and Aguero ahead of them when they signed. The 3 we signed for same amount had to be yeah for first team then because we don't have the same strength in the first team.
Barnsley are in the Championship mate I get the point though, which is why I mentioned balance, you can't rely on a strategy of buying solely those sorts of player, you need to take proven players that can go straight into the first team. Albeit how many players are signed these days from abroad in the £5-10m bracket that you barely see get a game?
True - but as MITO says, every transfer is a risk. We've been buying from mid table PL clubs recently and have spent large sums on experienced, PL proven players. Majority have been flops. Now I'm not saying we should be spending £20-30m on youngsters every time. The whole point of buying youth is to buy them before they become a big name to avoid big fees. But youngsters are getting far more exposure and experience, especially in the BuLi. With such exposure and limelight, the valuations increase. So there's even more pressure to buy them earlier.
