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.

 

[Irlamblue]

i believe this study was probably compiled by a rag university student as part of his final submission......

 

[tony adcock]

I’m still retching at how much we paid for Jo ……. Never mind the inflation adjusted price !

he was not good

 

[Irlamblue]

I’m still retching at how much we paid for Jo ……. Never mind the inflation adjusted price !

he was not good

he was a steal if you think about mangala and mendy

 

[BlueAnorak]

Mate any idea how they do this? Is it normalised by the highest revenue of any club at that time, or an average of revenue over top 10 clubs for each year?

Calculated on average football fee inflation from season to season.

 

[Mancity1980]

Sky took that data and made this graphic

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Basically Chelsea and the Rags (plus Robinho, who was just a short term statement signing on takeover day)

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I agree with the poster who said it shows how the Spanish and Italians have just smashed and spoiled records. How they can even say ANYTHING about City is beyond the pale for me. The fees they were paying in the early 90s was truly off the scale and the table shows that.

I must admit though, £138m for Shearer surprised me. I knew it was a lot of money at the time, but didn't think it would be so far up the list.

What a player he was though - if he was around now and was offered to us for £138m I would take him over Kane any day. I do think that he is probably the best player England have ever produced (that I saw in my lifetime) - at his peak he was absolutely unplayable. He was fast, two footed, good in the air, superb at penalties, superb at free kicjs, clinical, cool and could mix it up.

I think he had two horrendous injuries from memory too and without them he'd have smashed many a record and maybe even had a chance at the Ballon D'or.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Spot on as far as I can see. Italy in the early 90's was the financial powerhouse, followed by Spain a few years later, and we all know the rags smashed the market here attempting to keep up with Barca and Real M. What the table doesn't really show is the huge cliff edges created by the formation of the PL, Sky, Subsidy of Spanish / German clubs, old European cup morphing to CL, and subsequent tv deals. Perhaps more controversially an 'economic plundering' of African talent by European clubs.
Absolutely correctly, city does not feature at the top of the list, and I'm surprised Kun's fee even makes it on there.