Would you pay £24m for Lukaku?

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Tubey said:
^ this Lukaku is a world beater. But the Lukaku who is asked to link up play and lead the line is definitely not, and the problem is that the top teams - and Everton - use that type of player.....

...has just unimpressed on the international stage, with no experience of impacting upon European football and who has only played football outside the elite level.
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THIS.

If he ends up here he'll need to jack that grazing buffalo impression he's been developing.
 
eternal_defiance said:
My point was in response to your comment 'In 7 years we've seen a huge increase in transfer fees' and 7/8 years ago we paid £12m for Yakubu. Sturridge (£12m) has been played on the wing for a lot of his career but when played CF has a very good scoring record. 8 in 12 at Bolton for example and a ridiculous record of 31 in 43 for Liverpool. Anyway, my point was very obvious. Sigh. To further illustrate, in 2009 Real Madrid paid £80m for Ronaldo. 2013 they paid £85.3m for Bale. Have things changed that much? In 2002 Man Utd paid £30m for Ferdinand. Are you saying right now a club would pay £60m for Stones? I think that the real difference is around Europe there are now many, many more rich, super-rich, or mega-rich clubs capable of paying big fees.
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Each and every transfer is unique, comparing what one club sells and another buys for is pretty pointless on a one for one basis. There's to many factors that go into how a valuation of a player is found. But like I said in general transfer fees have risen considerable and inevitably since we payed £12m for Yakubu 7 years ago. Simply saying Sturridge cost £12m is meaningless when we're not buying Sturridge from Chelsea were hopefully buying Lukaku.
 
Del said:
How so Brenz?
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Don't think he'd be the same player if he hadn't been given the role of leading the line in Belgium at such a young age, contributed massively to making him such a good young player. If he'd been sat in the reserves at Chelsea or out on loan in the Championship or at Vitesse he'd be a couple of years behind.
 
eternal_defiance said:
My point was in response to your comment 'In 7 years we've seen a huge increase in transfer fees' and 7/8 years ago we paid £12m for Yakubu. Sturridge (£12m) has been played on the wing for a lot of his career but when played CF has a very good scoring record. 8 in 12 at Bolton for example and a ridiculous record of 31 in 43 for Liverpool. Anyway, my point was very obvious. Sigh. To further illustrate, in 2009 Real Madrid paid £80m for Ronaldo. 2013 they paid £85.3m for Bale. Have things changed that much? In 2002 Man Utd paid £30m for Ferdinand. Are you saying right now a club would pay £60m for Stones? I think that the real difference is around Europe there are now many, many more rich, super-rich, or mega-rich clubs capable of paying big fees.
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In 1992/93 the average transfer in the Premier League was just shy of £600k. In 2013/14 it was £5.6m, which was a 33% increase alone on 2012/13.

Things have changed massively.
 

mezzrow said:
I think Tim Howard may differ on that point. If you try to make transfer fees make sense, your head will likely explode. Hope we get him back, that's all.
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I want him back - just do not want Chelsea to start quoting more than £25M
 
Brennan said:
In 1992/93 the average transfer in the Premier League was just shy of £600k. In 2013/14 it was £5.6m, which was a 33% increase alone on 2012/13.

Things have changed massively.
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Yes they have. TV deals. But doesn't diminish my points. Man Utd paid £30m for Ferdinand in 2002 and only broke their transfer record recently £37m on Mata. Anyway this is about whether we can afford £25m on Lukaku! I voted £18-20m. Rises in recent TV deals have gone from £2.5b to £3.3b and now £5.2b so of course total transfer spend and average transfer fees would go up.
 
Matthew mcdonnell said:
compared to other top strikers, this kid isn't worth £24m on ability, just his youth that's all, I would only pay it as we're guaranteed hopefully 15 goals a season from a striker for many seasons, perhaps breaking 20 goals would be nice but cant see it tbh, kinda agree with tubey here in the sense that there is a chance that we could pay less than £20m and get someone that scores even more, i.e sturridge, but can't see much other strikers right now that are obvious choices, otherwise it's a risk like michu but they can be one season wonders, so best just get this kid and hope he can improve more and become world class
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I could see him breaking 20 goals. We only got him on transfer deadline day so he missed a few games, his injury in January. 29 appearances and 15 goals, not bad going really.
 

Well if you were to put weighting to each aspect of his abilities or stats I would say banging in goals in the Premier League and being a youngun with years to grow and learn would carry more weight than his touch/linkplay as it is right now. Whatever the hell Everton want to pay for him, if we get him, I am happy with.
 
For me lukaku would be worth every penny of 24 mill. Age on his side. He will get even better. Already a lot of prem experience and goals to his name. We would certainly not be paying over the odds like 2 teams have already done giving soton 56 mill for 2 half decent players. And if we did sign him for 24 mill who is to say we will pay the lot up front.
 
Moomin said:
I could see him breaking 20 goals. We only got him on transfer deadline day so he missed a few games, his injury in January. 29 appearances and 15 goals, not bad going really.
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The chances we created in the first 3 games he would of slotted a fair few of them.
 

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