WolfMan
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What figure wouldn't have been an overpayment then TT? You must have one in mind to say that we did overpay.YES HE IS!!!!
Please make it stop
What figure wouldn't have been an overpayment then TT? You must have one in mind to say that we did overpay.YES HE IS!!!!
Please make it stop
Breaking my please make it stop request, but only fair I give you a response to a direct question.What figure wouldn't have been an overpayment then TT? You must have one in mind to say that we did overpay.
Thanks for the response TT.Breaking my please make it stop request, but only fair I give you a response to a direct question.
Neto was 2 years older with similar first team experience at £16m and seen by many (me included) as too much at the time, so that seems a reasonable starting point. There are a couple of other factors to take into account firstly how is he viewed across the world of football, it's all very well Jeff trotting out generational talent, but how widely was that viewed? Linked to that was there any competition to sign him and if so at what level? Finally, I believe it has to be viewed relative to the size of club we are and particularly the budget we have. Largest fee paid against a backdrop of zero net spend last year and likely something similar this. It's a large % of 2 years budget for a gamble when at just turned 18 he could have turned into anything.
No more, I promise
That may, ultimately, turn out to be correct , but the real context for me is that there were a number of other areas that we really needed to strengthen and we chose to blow the best part of our budget on a complete unknown, albeit with potential. That is fine if you're a big six or are being bankrolled by a sheik but for us to do that was a dumb move , especially as our manager insisted on a small squad. Fabio took one of those spots.So basically we have paid half of what Utd paid for Ronaldo (taking into account transfer fee inflation), who had a nearly identical record to Fabio at the same age. If Fabio turns out to be half the player Ronaldo has been, I don't believe 35m was overpriced.
I agreeThat may, ultimately, turn out to be correct , but the real context for me is that there were a number of other areas that we really needed to strengthen and we chose to blow the best part of our budget on a complete unknown, albeit with potential. That is fine if you're a big six or are being bankrolled by a sheik but for us to do that was a dumb move , especially as our manager insisted on a small squad. Fabio took one of those spots.
Ronaldo did show promise, but even so, if he stayed at that level would he have been worth initial the outlay?I’m sorry Wolfman but a lot of that is total bollocks.
Fabio and Ronaldo aren’t even remotely comparable. He wasn’t a world beater but he was still holding his own in a top 4 team. He’d also played a lot for Sporting the year before. Fabio looked out of his depth in a bottom half team, wasn’t getting a look in at Porto. Ronaldo also showed promise, pace, skill, technique. Fabio could be the most intelligent striker on the planet, but you still need the physical and technical attributes to back that up to become world class.
Why not? Transfer fees have seen massive inflation since 2003. If you disagree fair enough, but at least explain why.Regardless of what this inflation website says, £17m then was not £70m now.
I wouldn't say they are irrelevant, but yes you can't bank on them. I mean I'd imagine Messi was quite good in youth football. That's why I said I wouldn't have gambled on Fabio if it was my decision.Youth records are literally irrelevant. BAS was banging them in, Zele Ismail was the first £100m player, Chris Cornes was the best player in the academy ahead of Mark Davies, Kyle Bennett was winning player of the tournament every week in national competitions. Didn’t quite become world beaters did they?
You say we should pay more for Fabio than Neto because he scored a few as a kid? Bonkers. Neto they had seen was already good, had the tools to succeed, could come in and contribute. Fabio did not have the tools and could not contribute, was not already good.
Anyway
To go on what do I think we should have paid. Well, based on the £35m we’ve paid, the time, effort, risk, wages, detriment to the team. I think we need to get £50-60m (at current market value) to break even. He has to go at Jadon Sancho levels to make a reasonable profit.
So he needs to basically become one of the best strikers in world football to pay off. If he becomes a solid top half striker but not good enough for an elite club then we’re making an effectual loss. Or certainly a pointless venture.
On ability, what he brings to the table, risk element, short term effect on us £10-15m max. Chuck in the broken all the records in the world (guaranteed superstar nonsense) and you could maybe stretch to £20m. At least at those levels you can still turn a profit if he doesn’t become Harry Kane. Whereas the money we’ve invested and all the other factors we’ve discussed, if he doesn’t ever warrant a move to an elite club then we’ve probably lost out. If he’s the tier down and replicates Chris wood then we’ve lost out
My last one.Ronaldo did show promise, but even so, if he stayed at that level would he have been worth initial the outlay?
Why not? Transfer fees have seen massive inflation since 2003. If you disagree fair enough, but at least explain why.
Here is the website: https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/
You've got Mbappe going for 150m as a teenager now, Felix going for 100m.
I wouldn't say they are irrelevant, but yes you can't bank on them. I mean I'd imagine Messi was quite good in youth football. That's why I said I wouldn't have gambled on Fabio if it was my decision.
How had they seen it? Neto had played less than 10 league games in senior football, a lot as a substitute.
So are you saying that you wouldn't have paid any more than whatever 20 million was back in 2003 for Christiano Ronaldo?
Ok mate fair enough. Just for the avoidance of doubt, I don't think Fabio Silva will be as good as Ronaldo, and I personally wouldn't have spent 35m on him.My last one.
Ronado wasn’t going to stay at the same level. Neither is Fabio, not sure what you’re point is.
Inflation - £17m wasn’t that much in 2004. Teams were routinely spending way more than that. £70m is still a massive amount now, teams aren’t routinely spending at that level or more
. There has been the odd exception where Mbappe, Neymar, Felix have gone for stupid money, but that’s still a massive exception, not the rule. Diogo Jota went to an elite club for £45m last summer. That’s still a massive feedback today’s market. Back then reversing inflation that was getting you Wayne bridge, Barry Ferguson etc.
Common sense tells you £17m then isn’t £70m now.
How had they seen Neto? Playing football I guess. I’m no scout but saw him in those EL qualifiers and thought he’s got something. Whereas I saw Fabio against Stoke reserves look like a competition winner.
Would I have paid £17m for Ronaldo in 2003. No idea, never watched him play for Sporting. But statiscally he was contributing for them, came to Man Utd and looked like he had something. He was probably playing at a better level than Neto was when they first joined. That’s all I can go off. Man Utd also have unlimited cash.
But the need to compare Fabio Silva to possibly the greatest player to ever play the game is just bizarre. Just read that back to yourself.
We overpaid because the deal is dodgy as fuck. Stop trying to pretend it’s not. It’s that simple. We can still do well out of it. We may do, we may not.
Im done. Your welcome to respond but I won’t reply for everyone else’s sake
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“And you won’t stop by the pub and drink three pints of lager if you’re going to drive home, you go and get a taxi.”
I'll bite. Spurs bought a first choice player from a team who finshed a place behind them the year before and was under contract for another couple of years. The fact is he's shit as we all know, but he absolutely was worth what they paid and probably more from the fact that their perception had to be that they were weakening an opponent and he wasn't crap. The fact the club didn't see 1/3 of that is another issueThe size of the transfer fee isn’t as relevant as it once was, it isn’t an indication as to the ability of the player. If you take three recent transfers of ours…Jota, Silva, Doherty it would probably be fair to say Jota is worth more than Silva who is worth more than Doherty. The difference between Jota and Silva is not reflected in their respective transfer fees and there is no way Doherty is worth what Spurs paid. All three transfer fees merely indicate the cost of making the deal happen.
Go back a generation or two….the first million pound players were probably amongst the best. Shearer and Ferdinand the same. But in recent years, transfer fees have stopped being an accurate measure of a player and I doubt players pay that much attention to them either - they are just transaction fees.