How is this relevant? The point made was that the selling club would be fools not to take the offer. The only analogy would be if Liverpool had refused to take £50m for Torres.
Is the £1m for Carroll even true? I read a lot of claims about it, but not one with a source. Also, this Porto thing doesn't seem particularly credible. Kenny could say we'd turned down a similar amount for Suarez if he wanted to. The big clue is the undisclosed bidder, meaning there is no way to certify the story at all.
Liverpool spent £100 million on £25 million of players. Man United spent £170 million on £6.5 million worth of players.
It's BS for being 6 months before we bought him, more like at the time Newcastle were relegated when he hardly kicked a ball in the 1st team. Christ, even Messi was valued at £1m sometime in his career.
Imagine paying £19 million for a player Spurs paid West Ham £2.75 million for. Or £31 million for a player that Spurs spent £10 million on. Or £10 million on a player Fulham and Roy Hodgson of all people spent £100k on.
are you tryihng to say smalling is not worth 10m? im sorry but your acctually disabled, out of all the people you could have picked, you pick him one of the best u21 players for england, and who was great for man united. next time pick evans.
I think Smalling is an excellent player and will be an England player in the future. I would happily have had him at Liverpool.
Why does it matter what they were bought for previously? Players improve, and their values increase accordingly. Yes, some transfer fee are over the odds, but that's what happens when a player moves to a bigger club. Every single football player has at some point been scouted out, for free, and come through a youth set up, whether it's at a PL team or a small local team, so I could say 'Imagine paying X amount for a player who Y years ago was scouted out for free.' Bebe is really the only one you have a point with.
Carrick wasn't scouted...he was in his early 20s when Spurs paid £2.75 million for him..he hadn't improved..actually got worse,as he hadn't made a forward pass since he was in West Hams youth team and United paid £19 million for him.
I don't rate him.I don't rate Anderson either...in fact Poulsen is better than Anderson and Carrick..and Poulsen is ****.
Err, so where did Wallsend Boys get him from? The point, which you obviously missed, was that every player is available for free at the beginning of their career. So to compare what Utd paid for a player to what that player was previously purchased for doesn't really prove anything. Like I said, the only one you have a point with is Bebe, who was available for free the same summer he was bought for £7 million. Carrick and the others were bought by Utd at least a full season after they were bought by the selling club, and therefore their value would have increased over this time. Charlie Adam cost Blackpool 500k, and we paid 14 times that...
on top of that i'm sure there was a rumour that the bebe deal had something to do with bebe's agent... anyway, don't see why it matters, clearly a nothing story, must be a slow news day
