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Luka Modric
Let me ask you a question.... if from here we give Jose the 17th biggest net transfer fee budget in England to spend over the next 5 years, where do you think he will get us?
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Jose Mourinho - SACKED
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Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
I think your missing the point
The reason we’re 17th nett is the club sold a load of youth players that were surplus to requirements...That money may well have been used to finance some of the new ground too
Poch brought on 27 players
We made money on 2 or 3 we sold
We lost on the others
The ones he chose to keep cost on average £25m!!!!!
So if we can buy players like Bergwein for £25m I’m actually on with that
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Luka Modric
26 players I think... and money was made on 4 of them, with (is it 14?) still at the club. So losses on 8 out of the 26.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Who did we make money on?
Trippier
Wimmer
Stambouli
Who else?
and yes we have 14 still here so Poch has -4 players he brought in he was happy with come this summer... that’s 60% of the squad which is a big amount
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
I was talking about what we spent on players, you were talking about nett spend which seems to have you bewitched
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
Good for you, i trust the source i was given as well.
Mate, last try because I don't think you are genuinely trying to discuss this .. lets' take your scenario
- Any net spend of neutral or less than 20-50M pounds will be in bottom of PL net spend table (say 17th)
- Lets assume we sell Rose, Foyth, Skipp, Sissoko, Lamela, Kane and Dele and for brick's and gigles sake, lets say we get 300 -350M (Kane +Dele probably = 200-250 together)
So we give Jose -> Lloris, Davies, Sanchez, Tanganga, Dier, Aurier, Winks, N'dombele, Lo Celso, Son, Lucas, Bergwijn, Parrott +300M in new players (plus raise our wages) and we have 20-50M left over to fudge up the net spend (keep it positive) ..
Do I think Jose would do better? actually I'm pretty fudging sure he would .. I'd be willing to bet in 2 years he would deliver a trophy, some fudging trophy ..
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Luka Modric
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Ah yeah
I did add Yedlin to the list the other night
Played a solitary game for us I believe
You mean Clarke as the 4th one?
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Luka Modric
Kane + Dele I agree.... the rest? £60m between them tops I reckon.
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Luka Modric
Yeah.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Maybe
But of course he signed off the purchase
Unless people believe the guy getting paid £9m a year as manager had no say in purchases
Very odd signing though I have to say
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Luka Modric
I heard that the loan back to Leeds was because Poch said no. He didn’t want to waste £10m of our funds.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
I’ve heard a few rumours and they all contradict each other
We have him back soon and we will get an idea of what if any plan there is for him
He looked decent last season and I don’t judge a player going on loans as long as they learn
Kane had some flop loans and it taught him things
Hard to see where Clarke fits currently though
I'd prefer you not to move the goal posts tbqh - you said 200m net, is that or is that not correct as i have shown that not to be the case with the information i could find?
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Luka Modric
Surely net spend is the best barometer though?
let me put it this way....
Do you agree that in a free market economy prices of things are typically driven by supply and demand, thus with thousands of professional football clubs players will typically be bought/sold for what they are worth? If so then us selling a player for £25 million and buying a player for £30 million is likely to mean that we have improved the squad a bit. However if we instead keep our £25 million player and instead sell a £1 million player and buy that same player for £30 million then we should’ve improved the squad by quite lot. Do you agree this is logical?
Football is one of the best examples of assets not being sold for what they're worth.
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Luka Modric
As determined by who though?
By the variation in prices Vs performance
There's far too much guesswork in transfers still for the market to reflect value.
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Luka Modric
The value of anything is merely determined by what an owner will sell for and what a buyer will pay.
players who are proven to be good and performing are very expensive. Players that have shown promise but are not yet proven are reasonably expensive. Players that were once good but have dipped in performance are less expensive than proven players still performing. Once promising players that didn’t fulfill that promise after moving up a level are reasonably cheap. Players that are neither proven, nor promising are cheap.
Most of our signings fall into the promising (pretty much all of them) or once good but dipped category (Moura, Llorente, Aurier). Sissoko was probably the only exception to that and I do agree that we overpaid there by probably £8 million or so, that was a last day of window panic, with the club having missed out on Wjinaldum, who was Poch’s first target and a much better fit.
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