The Flash said:
To be fair, I think he looks the bollocks.
So we may have paid a little over the odds? We paid £16m for Javi GoSlower.
The defence rests.
The way I see it is football is all opinion and price isn;t detremined by fairness but it's what the rights-owner/team wants for their asset.
If i go to buy a Ford Mondeo and there's 5 others the same then price matters. In football there is wages to factor in, willingness for player to come and how much the team values that player. The fact of matter is Shaktar didn't want to sell, they built a team around him and Willian and held us to ransom. We paid what we had to pay to get the player and that's all there is to it. 5 years a go we could be questioned but right now we can't because in football today if we don't pay someone else will, fact. Moura was opverpriced by 20mill easy, yet PSG paid it. Cavani is imho a £35-40m player and yet he sold for £55m. City, Chelsea and Real all said £40m tops apparently yet he went for more. Now one person can say they were robbed but another will say that's how it goes. You pay what you have to pay to get the player.
Fernandinho transfer is expensive by £5-10m imo but what's good is wages. Khedira or De Rossi for instance want at least £150k pw in wages whereas Fernandinho is on half of that (80k pw?) and that needs to be considered as much as the fee yet nobody does factor that.
The pundits who ridicule him and our other signings will have egg on their faces. This is no Sinclair, Garcia and Maicon set of signings. If United did what we have I'd be worried to be honest.