And Chelsea pushing stories out to create a market.
If we drop 40m on Palace for Eze, they can go get Gallagher.
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You’re probably right! Even if they “only” get 100m for him this summer then they’ve paid 60m net for 5 years of a player who is just about the best in the world. He’s been worth it for sure.I whole heartedly agree with all of this, except you need to swiftly move Mbappe into the yes column
The opportunity cost is the ability to strengthen meaningfully in several positions (like you say) and also perhaps the added pressure to selling players.
You also don’t spread risk when you buy one big player instead of multiple mid players.
Excluding Bellingham… How many of these top 10 most expensive players were worth the outlay:
1. Neymar to PSG - £198m
2. Mbappe to PSG - £163m
3. Coutinho to Barcelona - £105m
4. Joao Felix to Atletico Madrid - £113m
5. Enzo Fernandez to Chelsea - £107m
6. Griezmann to Barcelona - £107m
7. Grealish to City - £100m
8. Lukaku to Chelsea - 97.5m
9. Dembele to Barca and Pogba to Man Utd - £89m
Coutinho, Felix, Griezmann, Lukaku, Dembele and Pogba look like obvious NOs.
Neymar, Mbappé and Enzo MAYBEs
Grealish YES
Expensive transfers are rarely clear successes. Does rice deserve to be joint 7th most expensive player in history?
I don’t think so.
Liverpool spent 70m of their Coutinho money on Virgil and won things .
How did we do with the Bale money?
Bleh. Hard worker, kinda technically deficient at lots of things, definitely a good eye for goal, would make a great Everton player, don't think he's a top-club level starter though. (Top club.. you know what I mean..)
I whole heartedly agree with all of this, except you need to swiftly move Mbappe into the yes column
I was referring g to someone calling Levy a bald cunt...Yes but we bought Bissouma a year ago today so we did act quickly last summer. New manager and no DoF probably makes that hard this time around especially if levy is running things.
Hopefully thinks that he's young enough and works hard enough that he can coach him to play how he wants and improve areas of his gameIf Ange thinks PEH does not get the ball forward quickly enough what will he think of Skippy?
Mbappe a Maybe? You're on some serious drugs, fella.The opportunity cost is the ability to strengthen meaningfully in several positions (like you say) and also perhaps the added pressure to selling players.
You also don’t spread risk when you buy one big player instead of multiple mid players.
Excluding Bellingham… How many of these top 10 most expensive players were worth the outlay:
1. Neymar to PSG - £198m
2. Mbappe to PSG - £163m
3. Coutinho to Barcelona - £105m
4. Joao Felix to Atletico Madrid - £113m
5. Enzo Fernandez to Chelsea - £107m
6. Griezmann to Barcelona - £107m
7. Grealish to City - £100m
8. Lukaku to Chelsea - 97.5m
9. Dembele to Barca and Pogba to Man Utd - £89m
Coutinho, Felix, Griezmann, Lukaku, Dembele and Pogba look like obvious NOs.
Neymar, Mbappé and Enzo MAYBEs
Grealish YES
Expensive transfers are rarely clear successes. Does rice deserve to be joint 7th most expensive player in history?
I don’t think so.
He’s a yes. I did say that afterwards.Mbappe a Maybe? You're on some serious drugs, fella.
He's only scored like 200 goals for PSG, 4 or 5 times Ligue 1 top scorer, won them the league and domestic cups several times...without even mentioning his crazy impact on their marketing.
But yeah, he's a maybe and Jack the lad a sure yes. Mon dieu...
That's our interest over, let's see what the alternatives are.
You really think Gallagher is the English version of hojbjerg?!?! They’re not even close in Playing style?!