Phil Jones is set to sign for Manchester United for £17 million and Jordan Henderson is involved in a £20 million switch to Liverpool. It is clear that English players are stupidly overpriced, which may play into our hands well in negotiating any possible deal for Alex Chamberlain. Another good season coming will probably raise his price to 12/£15 million and if we get promoted, to £20 million after some good Premier League performances. Is it good for English Football that these players are so highly priced, leading to more arrivals from abroad or is it good for the 'smaller clubs' to receive high fees to then grow further? Sunderland and Blackburn must be laughing all the way to the bank, all their summer additions have now been paid for. Discuss.
Well it's supply and demand isn't it, the buying clubs clearly feel they are worth the price. Whether they are right is another matter; I definitely didn't see either of those transfers coming. Sunderland and Blackburn will probably feel it was a good bit of business yeah.
Andy Carroll for £35m, Torres for £50m, Bent for £24m... transfers are getting more expensive fast. But then back in 1961, one of the best players around in Jimmy Graves went for £99,999, and that was only 50 years ago. In 50 years we've gone from nobody in the world going for over £100k, to a player going for £80m. Such is inflation, as well as the supply and demand of the British/world transfer market. If the owners didn't see it worth it, they wouldn't shell out such ridiculous money.
i think clubs are trying to buy british to preempt the new regulations involving home grown players. it gives smaller clubs a lot more leeway to set price. it makes me especially glad that we have such a good academy
Not great for the English game. Clubs who want English but don't make their own will be pinching other team's kids before they are ready.
Yeah, although the prices are ridiculous, a lot more English players are going to top clubs. Well, two. But still, its getting better.
Jones and Henderson are good, hence the silly prices. Puts most clubs off buying the better English players when an equivalent foreign one costs much less.
I'm sure these guys are spending to get the better home grown talent in before the UEFA finacne rules come in. I'm not sure what they will mean, but it will mean some reduction in spending capability.
Its a bit of the perfect storm, the home grown rule and financial fair play. The top clubs are desperate to sign good English talent before financial fair play comes in and they are stuck with having to play the duffers their youth teams churn out. However is it good business for Sunderland and blackburn? Wont every club now just jack up their asking prices when they try to replace those players?
I think the fact that they're deals with other English clubs may have an influence- you'd need extra incentive to sell to a club who are seen as rivals and/or you have to play against in the coming season. Especially so in the case of torres to chelsea- liverpool wanted to make sure chelsea really had to pay top price.
Isn't it a fact that we are a victim of our good fortune, as soon as we make it known that we are interested in a player, the price suddenly shoots up, NC is not going to be taken to ransome by greedy agents and teams.
17 mill for a teenage defender is ridiculous - it can only be good for Saints though. We are producing a steady stream of players and they will be worth in excess of 10mill with the way prices are going.
What a waste of money Torres was. Seemed silly to spend mega money on him and sending Sturridge to Bolton.
It has to be this way to stop the likes of Liverpool and manyoo taking other clubs best players for next to nothing. Much better this way than what happened to Saints with bale and Walcott
its not just the prices for england players, its the prices full stop! rumoured arsenal move for chris samba £10MILLION!!!!!! i mean he's good, but ten mill?!?!?!?
The amounts of money on transfers is obscene and players such as Samba being quoted at £10m is crazy. The trouble is that football generates so much money because of it's popularity.
I think Samba is worth £10 Mill easy. He's a lot better than Dean Richards and how much did we sell him to Spurs for? £8 Mill and that's about 5 years ago.
