Oh sod the parole.
The concept of market value does not apply as the object (person) being valued is unique. The only true monetary value that can be attached to any player is the price that has been paid for them - and even that can be misleading. ALL other figures are speculative.
which is fair. every person is unique, just as gareth bale is unique.... looks like a character out of a 60's charlton heston movie but otherwise is unique. If he were to set the going rate for welsh players arsenal would be selling ramsey for 60mil.
every contract and player is indeed unique so it is down to all parties to agree the compensation required to break the contract. If lfc want to sell (they don't at this time) and suarez wants to go (and he does) and a club comes in (arsenal) then it is up to that club to come up with the means to break the contract. Arsenal did not ergo 40mil was not enough.... you could argue that 40mil on the 25th of May might well have been enough but that didn't occur then.... we will never know.
I would presume at this point LFC are working away on finding out things about other targets such as release clauses
Entirely speculative as you say.
To suppose he will socre 30 goals is speculative and to suppose he'll sit idle and refuse to play for 6 months is also speculative.





