MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Some liberties taken with the English language here.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Yeah, footballer's were treated like slaves before 1998.
Average annual top flight earnings for football players in 1998 = £380,000...average UK annual wages in 1998 = £15,000
'Indentured slaves'.
FFS.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £50m
You can't be an indentured slave, David, which is why I used the correct term indentured servant.
Why choose '98? The Bosman ruling was given in Dec 95 and the rules kicked in in '96. Besides, the era you referred to in your OP, whilst entirely fictional, appeared to be from a pre-PL era. But that's what you do, isn't it Dave, be deliberately vague so you can pick some random stat later to make it seem like you had a point. Which you didn't.
Mate i love richarlison but he even said himself that he went to Ancelotti and told him he wantes to leave for CL football and Ancelotti convinced him to stay another year.
Then we had to let him play at the Olympics to placate him to stay for another year on top of that.
He loves the club, no doubt but he obviously wanted to leave to further his career.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Even if you take it back before Bosman the top flight average annual wage was £130,000 with average annual wage of Joe Blow being below the £15,000 figure for 1998.
But yeah, indentured slaves/servants whatever.
They practically had nothing back then did they?
FFS.
14_dollars
Player Valuation: £8m
Bournemouth have a Maupay shaped hole in their attack.
dutchblue54
Player Valuation: £20m
If this John Textor can get us a striker from Palace or Lyon he can own our club lol. Odsonne Edouard incoming on loan lol
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
We focus a lot on ourselves, but Wolves, Bournemouth and potentially Palace all losing key players with days left til the season starts, Brentford fans are apoplectic at the lack of any progress this summer, even if we are taking modest steps forward so far with our business there are a few teams arguably going backwards.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
They're supposedly buying the lad from Atalanta for a reported 26m.
With Atalanta already losing their main striker with a long term injury it opens up them coming in with an improved bid for Beto I hope.
Maupay has got last minute to Brentford all over it again.
If we could turn that from a loan to a buy and Beto did go, we'd have a huge additional room to bring players in.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Brentford will I'm sure bring back Maupay as a band aid fix.
Hopefully we make it known a small fee will make it permanent, anything recouped even 2-3m can go towards a down payment or loan.
Deulofeumygod
Player Valuation: £35m
I hope you are right.
Toney is running out of potential destinations though
Utd allegedly hadn't budgeted for another forward and can't move on him unless they offload the likes of sancho
