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TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
The best teams bought young players and kept the good ones around and added to it year on year until they were good or to keep themselves good is not saying buy older players. Your experience comes from the good young players getting older and signing a second contract more than it comes from buying 28-32 year olds.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
You're not wrong but it is a bit interesting how few exceptions there are. You can add Milner and Matic in too and you're still under one per team from those four sides.
carolinablue232
Player Valuation: £70m
No no goat. Tom Davies isn’t good at anything. That’s the difference.
Baggzio
Player Valuation: £15m
Not being funny but don’t we have one of the youngest squads in the league anyway? Team is crying out for experience and quality right now. If we were hypothetically selling all our squad now we’d still lose money on players we signed younger like Iwobi, Keane, Pickford, Gbamin and probably Kean.
The only players we’d make money off were the gambles like Holgate, Branthwaite and DCL. Digne and especially Richy are outliers because they’re the only 2 players we spent relatively big money on at a good age and have improved and increased their value.
The recruitment has been poor in general not just the age of it. These aren’t necessarily bad players either they just haven’t improved and some have regressed to a lesser player than when we bought them. The vast majority of the squad has lost a lot of their value and that’s why we’re in the mess of FFP now. Think a few older heads will do the world of good to settle the younger lads to motivate them, players who’ve won things and played at a high level not Walcott, Tosun, Bolasie, Siggurdsson, the list goes on and on.
Not against signing young players for the future but I’d rather they be more like Holgate and DCL than Iwobi. Big money on a young player is a lot of pressure to instantly perform and most times they don’t live up to it unless they’re a star. Small money is no pressure and fans won’t really care either way unless they come good, look at Gibson and Adeniran, both signed for £5m or so as youths and no one really cares, Gibson looks like he might get a chance but Adeniran probably won’t work out at this point. No one cares or thinks of it as wasted money though. I’d rather gamble on youth than try to buy the “sure thing” for big money and it failing honestly, I just don’t think it’ll work for a club like us.
The only players we’d make money off were the gambles like Holgate, Branthwaite and DCL. Digne and especially Richy are outliers because they’re the only 2 players we spent relatively big money on at a good age and have improved and increased their value.
The recruitment has been poor in general not just the age of it. These aren’t necessarily bad players either they just haven’t improved and some have regressed to a lesser player than when we bought them. The vast majority of the squad has lost a lot of their value and that’s why we’re in the mess of FFP now. Think a few older heads will do the world of good to settle the younger lads to motivate them, players who’ve won things and played at a high level not Walcott, Tosun, Bolasie, Siggurdsson, the list goes on and on.
Not against signing young players for the future but I’d rather they be more like Holgate and DCL than Iwobi. Big money on a young player is a lot of pressure to instantly perform and most times they don’t live up to it unless they’re a star. Small money is no pressure and fans won’t really care either way unless they come good, look at Gibson and Adeniran, both signed for £5m or so as youths and no one really cares, Gibson looks like he might get a chance but Adeniran probably won’t work out at this point. No one cares or thinks of it as wasted money though. I’d rather gamble on youth than try to buy the “sure thing” for big money and it failing honestly, I just don’t think it’ll work for a club like us.
Nobody has ever won anything with kids.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
No but no one has ever won anything by only buying old dudes because even if you buy all the best available old dudes you still gotta get the team balance right and by the time that happens the old dudes are too old.
Toffee-nerd
Player Valuation: £20m
Was going to say the same thing. Half the teams are wrong as well, somebody wanting to make it fit their agenda. The RS didnt even sign milner and Henderson until well into their 20's. Classic stuff.
Toffee-nerd
Player Valuation: £20m
Yeah just like the RS did with van dijk, henderson and Milner. Utter rubbish man.
And thats also why a 3 year contract (on a still very good wage) makes sense for him too.
Just linebacker and special teams to go. Touchdown!
Friday tomorrow, bound to have signed someone by then....
Been a very good player but his injury record has been bad last 3 seasons. Very risky signing. I'd be ok with a season long loan with no or little fee and him on reduced wages.
James Rodríguez - Injury history
This is the injury history of James Rodríguez from Rayo Vallecano. On this page injuries as well as suspensions.www.transfermarkt.co.uk
You might be okay with that but doubt Real Madrid would be.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Liverpool & Chelsea both spent about 350mil on them players. Utd about 450mil
I’d say it’s about buying very good players irrelevant of age.
also them 3 clubs can attract the best players, we can’t at this moment.
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