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he looks like Xzibit on crack
Why bring re-sale into it. If we buy a player, we shouldn't immediately be bothered about what we can get back. Slimani is a good player. His age is irrelevant, and he's not old anyway.
Then again, the whole discussion is moot as we won't sign him anyway.
Blackwell Livermore
Player Valuation: £8m
Xzibit looks like Xzibit on crack.
germanblue
Player Valuation: £6m
What about Patrick Bamford?
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Hong Kong Phooey
Player Valuation: £8m
Yes we should be bothered what we can get back. Re-sale value is hugely important for a club like us.
It's ok for Chelsea or City to buy the finished article at 27/28, get 3 top years out of them and then bin them off for peanuts and just spunk multi millions on another in their prime to replace them.
We can't exactly do that can we? For all the stick Zat gets about the age thing, he makes very relevant points.
We'll get 50 million plus out of Lukaku, probably double our investment. Do you think we'd get that if he was 28/29?
Of course not. Unless we get taken over by people with money to burn it's incredibly short sighted to think re-sale value to a club like us isn't important.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
rather give one of our unproven kids a chance than chelseas
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Big Fat Sam
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IMO we are in such dire straits it probably makes sense to sacrifice Stones to the highest bidder, perferably to somebody abroad with a sell-on fee included too if possible.
If we rejected 38m then getting 45m should be easily achievable. IMO a 5-10m 'hard knock' player would be much more effective in our team anyway, as bad as that sounds.
That'd leave 30m to invest in a top end goalkeeper and a second brilliant striker, and possibly one more decent player to challenge for a starting spot, providing we can get rid of players such as Gibson, McGeady, Pienaar, Howard, Osman and Hibbert by the end of the season to balance the books.
If we rejected 38m then getting 45m should be easily achievable. IMO a 5-10m 'hard knock' player would be much more effective in our team anyway, as bad as that sounds.
That'd leave 30m to invest in a top end goalkeeper and a second brilliant striker, and possibly one more decent player to challenge for a starting spot, providing we can get rid of players such as Gibson, McGeady, Pienaar, Howard, Osman and Hibbert by the end of the season to balance the books.
Hong Kong Phooey
Player Valuation: £8m
It isn't, but he will be by the time we've had two or three good seasons out of him and he then starts to do a Kone.
Then what? We'll have to stump up another 20 million to replace him.
But hey maybe some filthy rich Arab will ride in on his camel and take us over so none of that matters.
Re-sale value is another phrase that was un-heard of 10 years back mate, heck, even 6 or 7 years ago.
Of course it's important, but fans seem to stress over it. If we sign a player, my first thought is never what we can get back for them when we sell them...
Couldn't get in Palace's side and wouldn't get in ours so unsure as he didn't seem to want to stick around where he wasn't getting first team football. Unsure.
....perhaps a better way of badging it is to simply say 'value'. If we buy a player and his value increases it's a sign that he's been a success.
Have to disagree there he is 9/10 spot on. I don't know if he gets his information from another Twitter page like but he posts legit news hours or days in advance of papers reporting
Hong Kong Phooey
Player Valuation: £8m
It would be nice not to think like that I agree, but we simply have to.
The current board have have actually put up very little for player transfers. Even in the Moyes days we had to sell to buy and Martinez (although he's had a little more than Moyes) has had to do the same.
Lukaku and McCarthy his biggest buys, were mostly funded by the sales of Fellaini Jelavic and Anichebe.
When our key players get past their sell by date and their influence in our team diminishes, do you trust them to put up 20 odd million on quality replacements with recouping any through sales?
Pienaar and Jags have been very important to us over the years, but they're now approaching mid thirties and need replacing. How much could we sell the pair for?
Virtually zero. Any replacements will have to be covered by the board.
Stones on the other hand, like Lukaku, was brought as a very promising youngster with huge potential.
We're now talking upwards of 40 million if he were to be sold, that not only could buy a replacement, but buy quality in another couple of positions too.
Not every young player is a success on the scale of these two though I accept they're a rarity, but for a club that's not flush with money, it's actually common sense to invest in talented younger players with re-sale value.
That doesn't mean every signing should be south of 25 either though.
Angle c
Player Valuation: £950k
I think it's all about balance, to much focus on resale and you end up like villa, where majority of players bought in the summer have potential but they don't have the quality needed to compete now, on the plus side when they go down jack grealish on the cheap could be have a good resale value!
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