Presumably Chelsea see it as a way of assisting their required English qualified quota of players, involving a player where there will be little, if any, "English tax" (as Everton can't afford to dig their heels in and demand top dollar for Barkley now that he only has one year left). I appreciate the likes of Moses and Cesc count as English qualified players, but I think they are just left with Cahill as their only actual English player. Izzy Brown at a push too, if you want to call him a first team squad player (although no doubt he'll follow Chalobah and Loftus-Cheek out the door this summer).
On that basis Swansea should be asking Everton for the best part of £100m of Siggy. Better player and on a longer contract (and I presume also English qualified, due to his teenage years with Reading).
While £250m is higher than I've seen listed elsewhere, they're utterly, utterly screwed. The team was bought on debt as it stands, and AC Milan simply doesn't have the revenues to sustain that even if they return to CL annually. Heck, in this past season, their revenues were probably roughly on par with ours, maybe even a shade lower.
Indeed. I'd pick Sigurdsson over Barkley without blinking. Simply a better player. Wouldn't want to nick any respected team's best player but I'd have Gyifl off Swansea in a heartbeat if they let us.
So City sign Walker for £45m, while Danilo could be bought from Real Madrid for half the sum. I do not know how that quite works out, but as they are of a similar age, I would have thought that a player of Real Madrid would have a higher value.
Ben Richards-Everton [Unattached - Accrington Stanley] I do like that name!!!! Here in Spain people always have two surnames, their father's and their mother's. If we did the same in the UK, I think it would make things more interesting. Think of a surname like Smith. Add the mother's surname and it would make people take a bit more notice.
Price is not value...it's the figure that seller and buyer arrive at and depends on how much someone is desired. Explains why some modern art can cost more than an Old Master. Prices in football are crazy at the moment anyway.
Can also sound daft....take Johnson-Thompson (the athlete)....who could think they were 2 names that would sound good together. And the banks would have to think of a new security question.
Point taken, and the athlete's name that you have chosen does sound rather odd, but you remember Forbes Phillipson-Masters and now James Ward-Prowse, so a merger of two surnames can "sex things up."
Who have they bought apart from the Juve guy? For the past few years AC have been buying third raters. Maybe they will return to the top table sooner rather than later. As it is they have a tricky encounter in the EL third quaifying round.
If they keep spending like this, it doesn't matter if they return to the top of the table. There have been no indications that their new ownership has this kind of money; if they had a couple hundred million to set on fire, it'd be a different matter, but they had to spend months raising enough to buy the team in the first place.
Haha he's really highly rated too. Have an acquaintance who works in their academy. He's very much going to be worked in this year
I think the time has come for the top 3 clubs in England to **** off with the top 3 from Spain, top 2 from Italy, Germany, and France, and make some sort of prawn-sandwich bullshite league, and just leave the rest of us to enjoy real football again. Imagine La Liga with no R.Madrid and Barcelona, no Bundesliga without Munich. Brilliant! Football has just become a complete circus these days.
