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That's a whole different ball game.
For me it isn't about the fee, it is about his inability to move the ball quickly. He is technically very good he just lacks belief and thinks that if every touch is a flick or a turn and he has loads of the ball then he must be good.
As long as he is on the bench and only starts the shit games I'll be happy.
As long as he is on the bench and only starts the shit games I'll be happy.
Huh? I thought it was well accepted we paid 25 million for Lallana!
Barmby is an interesting one, coz when we bought him for 6m that defo put him in the top 5 most expensive players we ever bought. I think we'd spent 10 and 8 on Heskey and Hamann the season before but then I can only think of Collymore and maybe Saunders who'd have been more than him, but I forget how much he was.
I seem to remember Barmby was on some mental contract too, like £55k a week or something.
God that sounds steep even now.
Means nothing.
How about we paid more for Lallana than we did for Suarez?
Barca got Messi on a free.
My point - rather crudely made - is transfer fees are open to so many variables - not least inflation - that they really are reflective of very little. In my ill-informed opinion, anyway.
Well, as the great Sage of Soccer, Clarke Carlisle said recently, ''A lot of players just do not know what it takes to do a normal grand-a-week kind of job". So they need the extra cash. Luckily, with all the rest of us proles earning at least a grand a week, we can subsidise them by buying tickets every week.
16 is the lower figure, 25 the highest. I'm not arsed so long as he's good.
I think Saunders was 5 but that was loads at the time.
Remember Barmby's goal against the Blueshite at Anfield. Lovely.
Woland is right. 2.9 million for Saunders. Record transfer at the time for us until we bought Phil Babb.
http://liverpoolfc.wikia.com/wiki/Liverpool_F.C._Record_Transfers
I remember being at Anfield and looking at Saunders warming up and being unable to comprehend how a player could cost such an enormous amount.
http://liverpoolfc.wikia.com/wiki/Liverpool_F.C._Record_Transfers
I remember being at Anfield and looking at Saunders warming up and being unable to comprehend how a player could cost such an enormous amount.
I still remember the splurge we went on in 1991, it was the first season I properly remember from start to finish.
Saunders 2.9m
Wright 2.2m
Walters 1.3m
Mega spending that was, back then.
I think Rob Jones came in a few weeks into the season, debut at Old Trafford in a goalless draw. I think he was £200k or so.
Saunders 2.9m
Wright 2.2m
Walters 1.3m
Mega spending that was, back then.
I think Rob Jones came in a few weeks into the season, debut at Old Trafford in a goalless draw. I think he was £200k or so.
Oh and Michael Thomas for £1.5m later on in the autumn!
Looking at the transfers of Mark Wright and Dean Saunders, both a national record fee.
Derby finished bottom of the table in 90/91 and we bought two of their best players in an attempt to win the league again. For big money.
Fast forward 24 years and its.... Been the same approach for nearly all those years. Quick learners we are.
Derby finished bottom of the table in 90/91 and we bought two of their best players in an attempt to win the league again. For big money.
Fast forward 24 years and its.... Been the same approach for nearly all those years. Quick learners we are.
And if the world had been aware of how he was going to turn out we'd have never got near him. Using a phenomenon as an example doesn't help.
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