Tevez can leave for £50M ,Downing can leave for £20M, Adam £12M. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-bid-Stewart-Downing.html:emoticon-0150-hands £25M cannot tempt Arsenal to let Samir Nasri go. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/tra...-even-if-offered-25million-article760005.html Someone has to break the bank.
Morning, I think the problem is once the standard has been set all clubs will compare the players to this. For example now you have signed Henderson for 20 million, and similar with us for Jones, all clubs will be thinking 'well if they are paying 16-20 million for him then I want X amount for my player'. I think Liverpool will be clever to try and get their transfers done early, like Fergie has done, before the Citehs and Chelsea really come onto the market and start over inflating prices ( like they have done in the last few seasons ).
Its been going that way for a long time!! ronaldo 80m, torres 50, villa 40m, carroll 35m. looking at these transfers you have to say if we can get downing for less than 20m it will be a good deal.
Looks like we'll get him now though. It's how we negotiate; we had about 2-3 different bids rejected by Ajax for Suarez before we got him, it seems likely we'll settle on something in the region of 18m for Downing which is sad really.
There was always the odd massive price even in the early 00s (Zidane, Buffon) but now a £15m transfer is probably seen as pretty average for the top few clubs. I read somewhere that the average price of a PL player today is £5m compared to £2m 5 or so years ago. So if you put it in relative terms, an £8m player is now costing £20m, meaning a £20m player back then is the equivalent to £50m now! (This is pretty much the case with Torres) But the flip side of that is, while you have to pay more for your targets, you can charge more for your own players. Everything is just multiplied up. The only way to combat it is to set a maximum transfer fee across the board, but that would give players too much power (like a release clause, a bidding club could meet the fee and the player choose to leave his club.) Although again this works both ways as you could use the same tactic to buy players. Can't see it happening though.
I think ratings for players should decide their worth, if they have a naff season then the value comes down with the stats, pricing should be footie related but it aint, all the other earnings a players can bring in are factored into it. Cap, can't see it happening
It wouldn't work BBF. Alot of good players have attributes that add value to the team but which can't be measured by stats alone.
Transfer fees have got ridiculous now. It has filtered down from the teams at the top (Chelsea, City, United and Liverpool) and has increased fees for the mid-table teams. (Everton, Sunderland, Villa and Newcastle) This has then increased the transfer fees for the Championship teams trying to get promoted. It has to stop or some big clubs are going to experience financial difficulties.
It's rather like playing cards for money. He who blinks first loses. This summer is going to be very interesting in terms of actual fees paid. With the economic problems across Europe all clubs are attempting to maximise income whilst minimising expenditure. The big Italian clubs are making "we have to sell to buy" noises. The big Spanish clubs are looking at a domestic economy with over 20% unemployed. I truly doubt that even City and Chelsea will be splashing the cash as some pundits tend to suggest. Big figures will be banded about (in a negotiation your first offer is the highest/lowest that you are going to achieve). Sometimes it will be defensive a la Nasri and sometimes it will be a maximisation tactic -as appears the case with Downing. Sometimes it will be sheer cussedness as appears to be the case with Adam. All I can see it doing is to slow down the whole process.
I remember when the transfer record more than doubled for Trevor Francis. Long time ago, same old same old.
I couldn't give a monkeys how much Liverpool spend as long as they strengthen positions of weakness and makes us more competitive.Thank god the days of ''sell to buy'' are over.
