The fee is excessive, I think most of us agree on that. But the fact he played for us before doesn't mean he's worth any less because he was 100% a Tottenham player when we signed him.
But he is our asset now, if he improves further and adds to his value, then we get to enjoy the benefit. We have probably paid the going rate for a decent PL English midfielder. Look at what English LBs are currently priced at?
If we go down next season, as Norwich have, do you think we'll be collecting a profit as Norwich have with Snodgrass?
Well, no. If anything that would rise the value wouldn't it? We'd value him higher than an unknown player with similar talent who hasn't played for hull city or in the Prem before. Because we couldn't pick him for the first game of the season in August. Now we can. How is that not an improvement?
But it sounds like you're saying that like it's a bad thing? If we had to pay £8m to maintain the level of quality from last season then so be it, I'd rather have him in the team than out of it, wouldn't you?
I don't think it'd have any impact on the price. It's not an improvement on the last team we fielded. It's a lot of money to maintain the standard of the team. We overpaid, which is the point I was making about 28 pages ago.
Thats contradicting the post I quoted for a start. I get what you're saying, and we have overpaid, but surely we should be looking to improve the team we have AVAILABLE TO PLAY FOR NEXT YEAR! God I wish we'd never taken the **** on loan now. **** of Jake.
If Livermore had had a poor or even an average season last time around his price would not have been so steep. Its a bit swings and roundabouts - what we gained last season in not having to pay a fee for a player with limited PL experience, and in his performances over the season, we now lose in having to pay top price for him precisely because his performances were so good.
