unsure. Silva was jeff Shi's signing remember. Now I think about it, I wonder if there is more to the fact that it was Shi in the pics, rather than Nuno or anyone else in the coaching team.
If you could wind the clock back I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t sign either of them. Over £60m for a club of our resources was a huge amount of money and after seeing them play there must be some big regrets and that appears to have brought about a change in strategy. I think after making money on Cav and Costa they got a bit carried away with Silva and neglected the small print about investments can lose value as well as increase in value.
It was a bung
Both of them of just the Fab one?
Fabio obviously. Semedo wasn’t signed with resale in mind, he will be nearly 31 at the end of his deal when we activate the 2 year option.
Maybe. I can just as easily see it being bad scouting given some of our other signings that haven’t been, uh, great.
No one signs completely unproven 18 year olds for that sort of fee
Before they’d seen him play, after his first outing you could see he was a player. Started against Watford in September and had a really good game. 12 Months later he’s our best player. Not remotely comparable.
I honestly have no idea after 18 months of evidence you can still hold this view. Liverpool have just signed Luis Diaz from Porto for £40m and he was one of their best players. Ignoring inflation, Fabio needs to be sold for over £50m to break even with the investment of time and wages, probably more than that if you consider the short term impact it’s had (£2.5m a league place for starters).
Sorry Alan, but that's cobblers. You can't judge the effectiveness of a signing without taking the price into account. He's a good player, a competent PL right back, he's not a £30m player though, it was bad business.
I mean, you still get some bad deals out there. Everton spent a big wedge on Moise Kean, for example. Hell, look at what Sheffield United paid for Rhian Brewster!
At that price, I disagree, simply put. I'd point to AWB as a comp for value.
And I'd point to Lamptey. You can't look at other deals where teams overpaid, particularly when it's Utd and claim that makes Semedo good value.
Amad Diallo
Equally you can't ignore real deals that actually happened.
Moise Kean was a talent and still is a talent. He was also 33% cheaper. Juventus are obligated to buy him back so everton get all their money back.
Brewster. Young, English tax and Liverpool always seem to be able to rip people off. Had just gone 1 in 2 in the championship albeit only half a season. Sheff Utd thought he was the man to keep them up immediately. They paid £23m, £12m less than Fabio to make an immediate impact. Probably overpaid £5-8m but they thought he was the guy and they can’t exactly attract the best. Hasnt worked out but there was at least logic.
