Yeah. I feel you. You can almost add on fee of 20 mill to every major signing of young prospective talent we get. It's almost like clubs are colluding to drive up the prices when we buy then expect a discount when we sell. It's not for every player but when the papers get a hold of it the value shoots through the roof. Then that same club buys another player to little fan fair.Maybe, maybe not. They'll be plenty of prospects who emerge between now and next season if that does happen. For the kind of money being reported, we should sign somebody who can contribute on the level of De Bruyne/Aguero.
I just look at us and compare our business to other clubs, and i scratch my head. Nolito and Gundogan are good buys to me (Gundogan is a risk given his injury history, but his quality is proven and the outlay on him isn't ridiculous) because they can contribute immediately.
Sane, Stones and Sterling on the other hand are all young players who may or may not go on to be world class, but will end up costing us round £45m each. Sane scored 8 goals and set up a further 6 in 38 games last season - fairly similar stats to Sterling. Stones meanwhile was in and out of the Everton team. Both Stones and Sane will most likely make it more difficult for Iheanacho and Denayer to get valuable minutes. I just think it's detrimental to what we already have and is a massively expensive experiment which may or may not work.
I could understand it if Sane and Stone and even Sterling were acquired for the kind of fee that evidently factors in the risk element of them not actually having the sort of ceiling we initially expect them to have, but the fees being touted are world class fees.
Embolo has just gone to Schalke for £20m ish, Dembele has just gone to Dortmund for £15m ish, Coman's option to go to Juve will cost about £16m, even Renato Sanches (which is also borderline ridiculous) even comes out considerably cheaper than the figures we are looking at or have spent. It's getting insane.
I know and by caving in to it we are just worsening the problem for ourselves in the long run. Everytime we or another big club hugely over pays, the barometer changes and a 30m player is suddenly worth double that.Yeah. I feel you. You can almost add on fee of 20 mill to every major signing of young prospective talent we sign. It's almost like clubs are colluding to drive up the prices when we buy then expect a discount when we sell. It's not for every player but when the papers get a hold of it the value shoots through the roof. Then that same club buys another player to little fan fair.
£50-60 million seems to be the going price for super talented young players.
That's what Sanches and Martial cost Bayern and United.
If these type of players are £50-60 million now, what will they be worth when they're in their prime? At least £100 million.
£50-60 million seems to be the going price for super talented young players.
That's what Sanches and Martial cost Bayern and United.
If these type of players are £50-60 million now, what will they be worth when they're in their prime? At least £100 million.
Maybe, maybe not. They'll be plenty of prospects who emerge between now and next season if that does happen. For the kind of money being reported, we should sign somebody who can contribute on the level of De Bruyne/Aguero.
I just look at us and compare our business to other clubs, and i scratch my head. Nolito and Gundogan are good buys to me (Gundogan is a risk given his injury history, but his quality is proven and the outlay on him isn't ridiculous) because they can contribute immediately.
Sane, Stones and Sterling on the other hand are all young players who may or may not go on to be world class, but will end up costing us round £45m each. Sane scored 8 goals and set up a further 6 in 38 games last season - fairly similar stats to Sterling. Stones meanwhile was in and out of the Everton team. Both Stones and Sane will most likely make it more difficult for Iheanacho and Denayer to get valuable minutes. I just think it's detrimental to what we already have and is a massively expensive experiment which may or may not work.
I could understand it if Sane and Stone and even Sterling were acquired for the kind of fee that evidently factors in the risk element of them not actually having the sort of ceiling we initially expect them to have, but the fees being touted are world class fees.
Embolo has just gone to Schalke for £20m ish, Dembele has just gone to Dortmund for £15m ish, Coman's option to go to Juve will cost about £16m, even Renato Sanches (which is also borderline ridiculous) even comes out considerably cheaper than the figures we are looking at or have spent. It's getting insane.
Sanches cost 27m which could rise to about 38m should he go on and win boat loads and be a huge success at the club. Even that is at the top end of what a prospect should cost in my opinion. I think Martial has a tremendous upside and probably a higher ceiling than most prospects, but they massively overpaid for him.£50-60 million seems to be the going price for super talented young players.
That's what Sanches and Martial cost Bayern and United.
If these type of players are £50-60 million now, what will they be worth when they're in their prime? At least £100 million.
If his release clause goes down go 33m euros next season, why not wait til then and allow him a year to develop? He will likely get more game time at Schalke anyway. At present his efficiency and end product is probably inline with a good number of top flight wingers so he probably wouldn't be giving us anything other worldly in the next year or so, so why not give him another year to see if he incrementally improves?
Seems to me to be star money being thrown at someone who may or may not be the next star.