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Mateus Ferdnandes

Lost Mango said:
But it wasa british record at the time so the equivalent of £110 million now. So Fernandes is a bargain!!!!
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I don’t think those equivalents track personally, inflation is a fair point, but the game was very different then and Keane was an obvious generational talent.
 
Baleforce said:
I don’t think those equivalents track personally, inflation is a fair point, but the game was very different then and Keane was an obvious generational talent.
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I was being somewhat tongue in cheek but there is a serious point that anything between £60 and £90 million is serious but not surprising money these days (ridiculous though it is).

£3.5 million would inflate to about £10 million these days (rough google estimate) and you wouldn't expect Anderson or Haaland or Rice to being going in that ball park. The 80% equivalent of the record back then got you Brian Deane, David Batty or Paul Warhurst. We paid over £2 million for Razor Ruddock. All proven quality premiership players but doubt any of them would be going for £85 million in todays market at their prime.
 
Lost Mango said:
I was being somewhat tongue in cheek but there is a serious point that anything between £60 and £90 million is serious but not surprising money these days (ridiculous though it is).

£3.5 million would inflate to about £10 million these days (rough google estimate) and you wouldn't expect Anderson or Haaland or Rice to being going in that ball park. The 80% equivalent of the record back then got you Brian Deane, David Batty or Paul Warhurst. We paid over £2 million for Razor Ruddock. All proven quality premiership players but doubt any of them would be going for £85 million in todays market at their prime.
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Loved Razor in a Spurs shirt
 
Possibly should be in the What the Heck thread but just seen Chelsea have signed a 21 year old defender for £47 million who has played 90 games in his career, Liverpool completed the £60 million signing of a 20 year old defender with 50 meaningful matches. Neither have played in the EPL before.

We sign a 26 year old international with over 100 games of EPL experience and almost 200 top flight matches under the belt and that means we have had our pants pulled down at £52 million. Struggling to find the same level of criticism in the media or BTL about those signings in comparison to ours.

No transfer is a guaranteed success and I know contract situations vary but are we held to different standards???
 
Lost Mango said:
Possibly should be in the What the Heck thread but just seen Chelsea have signed a 21 year old defender for £47 million who has played 90 games in his career, Liverpool completed the £60 million signing of a 20 year old defender with 50 meaningful matches. Neither have played in the EPL before.

We sign a 26 year old international with over 100 games of EPL experience and almost 200 top flight matches under the belt and that means we have had our pants pulled down at £52 million. Struggling to find the same level of criticism in the media or BTL about those signings in comparison to ours.

No transfer is a guaranteed success and I know contract situations vary but are we held to different standards???
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I honestly don't know why anyone worries about what the media says about us vs another club.

Also if you was a fan of the clubs you mention then you might well see more media attention discuss whether their specific deals are worth it or not on your SM feeds.
And it was the apparent words from Levy that started the whole pants pulled down thing anyway....
 
Lost Mango said:
Possibly should be in the What the Heck thread but just seen Chelsea have signed a 21 year old defender for £47 million who has played 90 games in his career, Liverpool completed the £60 million signing of a 20 year old defender with 50 meaningful matches. Neither have played in the EPL before.

We sign a 26 year old international with over 100 games of EPL experience and almost 200 top flight matches under the belt and that means we have had our pants pulled down at £52 million. Struggling to find the same level of criticism in the media or BTL about those signings in comparison to ours.

No transfer is a guaranteed success and I know contract situations vary but are we held to different standards???
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It was the contract situation, not the players ability that triggered those comments re Van Hecke
 
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