Transfer Fees adjusted for today's prices

[Claytop]

Mangala not gonna age well.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

All of those fees are inflated anyway.
Robinho did NOT cost £39M.

Sterling's fee inflated by £13M, de Bruyne by £13M, Otamendi by £10M, Sané by £8M, Fernandinho by £6M.
The likes of Jo, Adebayor, Balotelli, Silva and Mahrez are a couple of million out.

You can't adjust fees for inflation when you don't get the original fee anywhere near correct.

Yeah I noticed they had Shearer at 18.something million. He was definitely 15.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Shows the gamble of big money signings. I would say half that team didn't really deliver

Yeah, when I heard 100m for Grealish I thought I'd look at a list of most expensive signings ever and see how many of them were successful. For my money only 5 or 6 of the top 30 were unequivocal successes, a similar number were complete flops, and most were good but not worth the money.

 

[DJ1]

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I think that clearly shows just what an absolute bargain Benjamin Mendy was

;-)

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Sky took that data and made this graphic

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Any United fan that says we ruined football should be sent this.

 

[Lavinda Past]

And after his debut we though we had picked up a bargain!

Speak for yourself... I thought he was useless from the first moment I saw him kick a ball. He even looked poor in the warm-up.
Costa was absolutely crap that day, so bad he even made Mangala look decent.

I maintain my opinion on him at the time... Mangala is a good athlete looking for the right sport.

 

[Corky]

It is very crude, the lower price bracket players should not inflate like the record transfers as that is not reflected in reality.

 

[abu13]

It all looks like bollocks to me.
The numbers just don't stack up.

Has Camel gobs fee at £41.4 million in 2003 and converted it to £158.6 million in todays money = 383% increase.

Zidane one year earlier at £69.75 million and converted to £157.5 million in todays money = 225% increase,

 

[kun]

Shows the gamble of big money signings. I would say half that team didn't really deliver

It shows that when clubs are desperate they overspend and make poorer decisions.
Kepa flopped because they needed to replace Courtois at short notice. Other big money GKs like Ederson and Alisson have been exceptional. Robinho as City were desperate for a star signing. Di Maria and Pogba for similar reasons at United.

Shevchenko was a case of a meddling owner.

Carvalho and Ferdinand, no arguments, both home runs.
Ferreira? Meh? Cancelo and Walker cost similar? Both brilliant.
van Dijk, de Bruyne, Shearer, Rooney. There are very many big money players who have excelled.

 

[kun]

It all looks like bollocks to me.
The numbers just don't stack up.

Has Camel gobs fee at £41.4 million in 2003 and converted it to £158.6 million in todays money = 383% increase.

Zidane one year earlier at £69.75 million and converted to £157.5 million in todays money = 225% increase,

That Zidane fee is out by about £20/25M. This is rough.
It feels like they have deliberately over-inflated certain players to help sell stories.