Suarez? I'd pay £20 and a couple of bags of cheesy Wotsits. I might throw in a few pork scratchings, who knows?
The follwoing summer... Canales:€5m Di Maria: €25m Pedro: €10m Khedira: €10m Carvalho: €8m Ozil: €15m Total: €73m Good call
If barcelona were clever they could get him for free. Fishing rod + manikin + blue football kit = suarez hunger
You could also look at the summer they signed C.Ronaldo since they also signed Albiol (15m), Alonso (32m), Kaka (65m) and Benzema (35m) too. Of course, you could stick to your "they've not spent £80m on a player" stance since its impossible for you to be wrong with only two player ever costing that much
Anyone know what Maradonas transfer fee was after he was banned for failing a drug test. Napoli to Seville? cant find any mention of a fee so perhaps it was nothing. Hes an example of a flawed genius and how his actions ( on and off the pitch ) can have a huge impact on a players value. He went to napoli for 5million. that was a record at the time apparently. did napoli get a fee for him? did any club get a fee again for the disgraced player?
Between Ronalod and Bale, they didnt even come close. Those fees are reserved for just a few players. Suarez isnt one of them.
He left Napoli in 91 and signed for Sevilla in 92 so there was a gap. Possibly sacked? Times where different then though, morals no longer exist so Suarez won't be sacked.
$7.5million in 1992. Didnt have euros back then and his previous fee was 5million GBP in 1984. No idea on exchange rates back then, seems FIFA had to mediate the transfer and he was banned from going back to italy for 2 years 5mill GBP is probably less that $6.4million in 1992.
Would that be Pesetas (Sevilla) or Lira (Napoli)...? If pesetas, it would have been about £4.5m. Don;t know about Lira
They got a fee. Took a while but an old NYtimes archive report had it. Napoli wanted rid of him badly though. obviously different situations due to him being a coke fiend and suarez just being peckish but in terms of a world class footballer who has been banned for a very long time, its the most obvious comparison.
Only recent incidents I can think of is Rio and Mutu. Obviously both were just the once, Man Utd stood by Rio whereas Chelsea sacked Mutu.
Rio was banned on a 'he might have' basis. Mutu like maradona was rivalling the US for cocaine consumption. Rio was a superstar though, Mutu? who?. Tbf he was decent. Some city player too. actually guilty but got a shorter ban, reduced even further on appeal than rio did.
Mutu was well known, Chelsea had just paid a large fee for him (nothing abnormal there though ) too. Rio appeared to avoid the drugs test, questions have to be asked why. He knew the rules but not the severity of the punishment. In that regard, its quite similar to Suarez.
If he had missed a drugs test three times what do you think his third ban would have been, aqnd would he have had much sell on value?
Is drug taking (baring in mind missing a test is treated the same as testing positive for taking drugs) or biting worse? Biting is much closer to punching, kicking and general violence. However, I don't want to get into a Rio versus Suarez debate though, that wasn't the point.
Much more sensible discussion this. Obvious why. What are liverpool going to sue fifa over? Surely they sue suarez? Surely liverpool have something in his contract regarding his behaviour.
I said this immediately after the bite. Either vastly reduce or zero pay whilst banned. Can't sue FIFA, what would they sue them for? Uruguay or Suarez would be the target but the latter would surely see the end of his contract with the law case seeking the loss of a transfer fee and potential game income?
Not interested in Rio v Suarez, was talking about the offence. Do you know what the punishment was for the first offence of just missing a drugs test (not being caught taking drugs)? the second and third offence would have been much worse as is the case with biting. If you don`t learn the punishment will get worse!
