PrezIke
Well-Known Member
If Grealish is worth 100 million - I wouldn’t sell Bernardo for less that 150 million then
If Bernardo was a home grown English player going to another English club, you'd probably be right.
Otherwise, 80-90m in this market is the max I gather.
Grealish's marketability is also miles higher in England/the UK, and also as you can see the issue with signing some foreign players - in particular - is that they want to go to Barca or RM at some point.
Not a jab at them either, just is what it is.
Another reason the value of top quality UK talent leads to such higher fees is we know UK born and raised players are less likely to want to live in countries where English isn't believed to be as widely spoken (Germany a good example of why they get more English players, but Bayern isn't as glamorous as RM or Barca today)
OR really just more likely to be happy living in England, or for us, be happy to be in Manchester rather than London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, etc.
Read Phillips' comments today and see how that connects.
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