Exeter Gently
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Silly season well and truly in full swing.
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Total different budgets, about time we bought players for now and not ones for 3/5 years time.
£1b, Moshiri's entire fortune, would pay the gap between our wage bill and Chelsea's for all of 5 seasons before it was gone.
However I'm not trying to be too much of a buzzkill. We'll have a competent commercial team which should raise income significantly.
I just hope we spend wisely rather than splurge Sunderland style.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I'm not being horrible mate, but Moshiri's wealth has always been estimated to be a lot higher than 1 billion. The initial estimate was 1.3 billion by Forbes, who openly acknowledged they had very little information on his assets due to poor intelligence in Russia and had estimated it very cautiously. They later popped it up to 1.9 billion with a similar remark. While we are plucking figures in the dark (often it is with the super rich) a reasonable firm who estimate wealth are saying double 1 billion is cautious in their estimate's for what he has.
Your point still stands though. This is not going to be am Abramovich situation. In all honesty it is unlikely Abramovich would be able to dominate the league in the way he did 12 years ago now. Was the transfer record 30 million then?
If there is 100m to spend I think that will buy us four or five players. A mixture of proven costly experience and young talented players still on an upward curve in their careers.
We have already probably saved the wages of three of these with the departures of Howard,Hibbert, Osman and Pienaar. There will be other bits and pieces of savings as well as we may see another player or two leave. Possibly one or two of McGeady,Oviedo,Kone, Mirallas,Besic and maybe others that we would not think would be sold.
At the moment I don't think we are shopping at Harrods. Not only because the money isn't there but because as yet the players may not want to come. I think we will be shopping for the best players in the lesser leagues as that is where the best of affordable talent still play.
The comment that 100m only buys two Raheem Sterlings or one and a half Lukaku's is a bit frightening.
We probably have an advantage in that Everton will already have a lot of scouting done for this transfer window and RK will have identified targets for Southampton as well , so we may have a wider range of players scouted than usual.
There is very little of value in the Premiership. The premium that you pay probably makes it too expensive. 45m approx. for Stones and 60m for Lukaku is proof of that not to mention players like Sterling. Can we afford to pay maybe 25-30m for a player like Butland... I don't think we can, good as he is.
We have already probably saved the wages of three of these with the departures of Howard,Hibbert, Osman and Pienaar. There will be other bits and pieces of savings as well as we may see another player or two leave. Possibly one or two of McGeady,Oviedo,Kone, Mirallas,Besic and maybe others that we would not think would be sold.
At the moment I don't think we are shopping at Harrods. Not only because the money isn't there but because as yet the players may not want to come. I think we will be shopping for the best players in the lesser leagues as that is where the best of affordable talent still play.
The comment that 100m only buys two Raheem Sterlings or one and a half Lukaku's is a bit frightening.
We probably have an advantage in that Everton will already have a lot of scouting done for this transfer window and RK will have identified targets for Southampton as well , so we may have a wider range of players scouted than usual.
There is very little of value in the Premiership. The premium that you pay probably makes it too expensive. 45m approx. for Stones and 60m for Lukaku is proof of that not to mention players like Sterling. Can we afford to pay maybe 25-30m for a player like Butland... I don't think we can, good as he is.
Aren't we due a load of TV wonga on top of the £100 million ?
CahillsCornerFlag
Player Valuation: £70m
Hearing that Strootman is actually Dutch for Gibson.
TheAlmightyFloater
Player Valuation: £30m
Heard he's been done for driving under the influence of chips and mayonnaise.
Swerve.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Very sobering, especially for a lot of people talking as if we are the new Man City.
meagher94
Player Valuation: £35m
Not really. £100m net for us is massive, not sure why people are trying to play it down. As for the Newcastle comparison, they spent that money horribly with a terrible manager spending it. Totally different to us.
Fantasy football post:
In:
GK: Butland £25 million
CB: Van Dijk £30 million
CB: Koubaily £20 million
CM: Witsel £30 million
RM: Mane £30 million
ST: Pelle £10 million
Out:
Stones £45 million
Niasse: £4-6 million
-------------------------Butland
----Coleman----Van Dijk----Koubaily-----Baines
---------McCarthy------------Witsel
Mane ---------- --Barkley ------------Mirallas
--------------------Lukaku
In:
GK: Butland £25 million
CB: Van Dijk £30 million
CB: Koubaily £20 million
CM: Witsel £30 million
RM: Mane £30 million
ST: Pelle £10 million
Out:
Stones £45 million
Niasse: £4-6 million
-------------------------Butland
----Coleman----Van Dijk----Koubaily-----Baines
---------McCarthy------------Witsel
Mane ---------- --Barkley ------------Mirallas
--------------------Lukaku
30 mill for Van Dijk? Fume if we spend that on him.
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