Jude Bellingham

[FantasyIreland]

So we are not allowed to discuss transfer fees now?

Daft comment as no one has said that.

Crack on if you need to,just makes little sense.

 

[blueparrot]

So we are not allowed to discuss transfer fees now?

You can but a player is either good enough for us or he isn't good enough. Feel free to discuss an arbitary figure at which you've decided he suddenly becomes not good enough.

 

[Keeper!]

Daft comment as no one has said that.

Crack on if you need to,just makes little sense.

thank you

 

[bluealf]

As far as I am aware horse racing has not limit on investment and is called the sport of kings for a reason.

I seem to remember a certain Sheik Maktoum speeding hundreds of millions on the finest horses and not always getting the results he would expect.

No doubt Bellingham is a huge talent, but spending 130m plus contract is not a bargain and comes at a huge risk, as said previously, in the history of football, very few of these gigantic transfer deals have proved to be a success.

Again you say in rhe history of football few of these gigantic fees prove to be a success.

List them?
There is 12 over 100m
Neymar
Mbappe
Felix
Countinho
Pogba
Lukaku
Greisman
Dembele
Bale
Grealish
Hazard
Ronaldo

Can we say 7 are a success on there and I am not even going to include Jack.

Countinho, Pogba, Lukaku are flops, lukaku was his move back to Chelsea

 

[kun]

Again you say in rhe history of football few of these gigantic fees prove to be a success.

List them?
There is 12 over 100m
Neymar
Mbappe
Felix
Countinho
Pogba
Lukaku
Greisman
Dembele
Bale
Grealish
Hazard
Ronaldo

Can we say 7 are a success on there and I am not even going to include Jack.

Countinho, Pogba, Lukaku are flops, lukaku was his move back to Chelsea

Ronaldo, Bale, Mbappé and Neymar are the only successes there. Dembele, Felix and Grealish could still prove to be. Rest are flops.

4 successes (Ronaldo, Bale, Neymar, Mbappé)
3 jury out (Dembele, Grealish, Felix)
5 flops (Coutinho, Griezmann, Pogba, Lukaku and Hazard)

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

If he helps with winning trophies that will do me

 

[kye1991]

In horse racing terms people pay absolute fortunes for horses because of breeding or in simpler terms potential.

Bellingham is a full international at 18yo, scored at a world cup finals and has the 'potential' to improve and keep on improving.

We signed Sterling for 45m and then we got the best three years out of him anybody will get.

At 18yo we could feasibly have this player for 15 years for 130m that would make it an absolute bargain.

The word bargain seems to have lost all meaning

 

[bluealf]

The word bargain seems to have lost all meaning

if we signed him and kept him until he is 33yo as we have done with a lot of our signings, do you not think that 8.5m a year, (not including wages as that would be pointless they all get paid loads.)

So 8-9m a year is not a bargain for a player that will have given us 15 years of service?

I'd snap your hand off for that scenario right now.

 

[bluealf]

Ronaldo, Bale, Mbappé and Neymar are the only successes there. Dembele, Felix and Grealish could still prove to be. Rest are flops.

4 successes (Ronaldo, Bale, Neymar, Mbappé)
3 jury out (Dembele, Grealish, Felix)
5 flops (Coutinho, Griezmann, Pogba, Lukaku and Hazard)

Fair enough, I wouldn't particularly argue at the flops, though it is funny that it is the old money teams that have had the most flops.

It doesn't unduly worry me about signing one, our recent record is very good, if Jack pushes on then it will be excellent.

Also, we do need to have some English players in the squad to keep to the rules or again we end up playing with a smaller squad, if we have to pay more for that then it is what it is.

 

[BAB.DAB]

The word bargain seems to have lost all meaning

So has the word could