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I'm saying the scum and arse had to pay that to get those players. It was a fair deal.
The deal we ended up with for Alberto is beyond me. It's like Ayre put the decimal point in the wrong place.
Their actions say that. Which is how you value the player. If Fulham want to buy Shelvey and we "say" he is the next Gerrard and demand 20m we'll get laughed at. What I don't get is how Ayre got done like that.
Even if our scouts said he is as good as Coutinho, you don't fucking blab that out to Sevilla. We should never have paid more that 3m.
Oxlade had made 20 starts in LEAGUE ONE!! LEAGUE ONE!!! Not the championship, LEAGUE ONE.
And Arsenal paid 12m rising to 15m.......3 YEARS AGO.
This lad has just scored more goals and got more assists in a season in Barcelona B than Oxlade has in his career to date. And in a higher division that Oxlade was.
Maybe we should leave the talent to Arsenal and keep scooping up the premiership proven types.
He is worth more to us than he is to Sevilla. Obviously we should look to pay only what Sevilla think he is worth. Instead we seem to have turned up and shown our own valuation, the Sevilla director of football pissed himself but managed to keep a straight face just long enough to sign the papers.
That's because you can't run a formula to identify talent on excel.
He was a teenager. He was in their team. Southampton therefore named their price and Arsenal had no choice. If they didn't pay up then Ox could have stayed for 2-3 years and southampton would have won ganes and still ended up selling him for millions.
Sevilla had no leg to stand on in these negotiations. What the fuck were they going to do with Lberto who was 20 and loaned out because he wasn't in their team.
Youre just talking nonsense. They could have,....ya know...played him.
Yes. Then what do they do with the better player who is already in their team?
You mean Navas? They sold him already.
And if you are saying someone else is better then you are just speculating.
by the by its 6m rising to 6.8m with add ons apparantly.
Its nothing like that. Quit being fucking stupid.
Shut it Evra.
Where are people getting this idea that Sevilla didn't value him at £6m? Do we have any idea whether that's true?
We got him for less than Tom Ince will go for. Is £6m really that outlandish?
I just don't understand the fuss.
We got him for less than Tom Ince will go for. Is £6m really that outlandish?
I just don't understand the fuss.
Navas is a player reliant on pace who'll be 28 in November. He has 4 'good' seasons left in him, in all likelihood. Alberto has perhaps 10 'good' seasons left. City are paying £3.5m for each of Navas's, we're paying £600k for each of Alberto's. Navas is therefore around 6 times more expensive.
That's a major difference.
Very true. But if Sevilla tried to use that argument in my presence I'd send it straight to Man City. Ayre is an idiot.
Reading the comments you'd think the opinion on LAR is evenly divided. However the poll shows that there are exactly 3 guys here who think we overpaid. But they are sure vocal about it… Nothing wrong with it, mind.
There is no guarantee that Alberto will prove a good signing. It's possible that Ross and others will be proven right that the fact he didn't break into somebody's first team yet shows some lack of talent or determination or maybe his game is not well-rounded and will never be well-rounded enough for top level (kind of how I think of Shelvey). However, I think the overall strategy of buying players like Alberto, players who are at the same stage of their career and who usually command a decent fee because their club actually rates them highly and is not keen to let them go (has that thought crossed your mind, dantes?) is spot on.
This is exactly how Borussia Dortmund managed to build one of the best first-team squads in the world, while paying West Brom level of salaries (until this year). We are lucky to have hit a jack-pot, it seems, in our first roll of the dice with Coutinho; whether Alberto comes good or not, we need to continue searching for these kinds of players every year.
There is no guarantee that Alberto will prove a good signing. It's possible that Ross and others will be proven right that the fact he didn't break into somebody's first team yet shows some lack of talent or determination or maybe his game is not well-rounded and will never be well-rounded enough for top level (kind of how I think of Shelvey). However, I think the overall strategy of buying players like Alberto, players who are at the same stage of their career and who usually command a decent fee because their club actually rates them highly and is not keen to let them go (has that thought crossed your mind, dantes?) is spot on.
This is exactly how Borussia Dortmund managed to build one of the best first-team squads in the world, while paying West Brom level of salaries (until this year). We are lucky to have hit a jack-pot, it seems, in our first roll of the dice with Coutinho; whether Alberto comes good or not, we need to continue searching for these kinds of players every year.
Yep.
Spurs spent 10M on Gareth Bale based on a grand total of 5 goals in the Championship.
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