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Swansea sack Clement Wednesday sack Carvalhal Boro sack Monk (after winning) Swansea appoint Carvalhal Monk second favourite for Wednesday Liverpool pay £75m for Virgil van Dijk
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December 28, 2017, 1:07pm |
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I’m not even sure Van Dijk is that good! What would Baresi or Maldini have been worth in today’s market ?
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December 28, 2017, 3:35pm |
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I’m not even sure Van Dijk is that good! What would Baresi or Maldini have been worth in today’s market ?
It's the knock on effect too. Now that Van Dijk has gone for 75 million, Johnny Evans's value probably goes from 20 million to 30 million, just because it can. Crazy.
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AndyDarloFC |
December 28, 2017, 3:36pm |
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Swansea sack Clement Wednesday sack Carvalhal Boro sack Monk (after winning) Swansea appoint Carvalhal Monk second favourite for Wednesday Liverpool pay £75m for Virgil van Dijk
Monk was sacked purely because he went behind Boro's back to speak to Swansea. The chairman found out on the day of the Sheff Wed game (which they won) and then decided to sack him on the night. Monk had told the chairman he couldn't attend a planned meeting with him regarding the January window as he had a family emergency (which turned out to be him travelling down & speaking to Swansea).
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RichMariner |
December 28, 2017, 3:51pm |
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The numbers involved in transfer fees, wages and bonuses is beyond my comprehension.
Someone once told me that it's literally not worth Gareth Bale's time to pick up a £1 coin from the floor. In the time it takes him to pick it up, he'd have earned more from his Real Madrid contract.
The guy is earning more than £1 a second, even while he's sleeping. Messi, Ronaldo and plenty of Man City players will be earning at the same rate, and that's before we talk about transfer fees.
I thought Shearer joining Newcastle for £15m was pretty mental at the time because I don't think transfer fees had even reached £10m when this blew them out of the water.
Average Premier League players are commanding £20-30m transfer fees and wages in the £100k p/w. The gulf between that and even the average Championship player is remarkable.
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Abdul19 |
December 28, 2017, 3:53pm |
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I’m not even sure Van Dijk is that good! What would Baresi or Maldini have been worth in today’s market ?
I don't think there's a single defender anywhere near that good these days. So probably about £1000000000000!
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December 28, 2017, 4:11pm |
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Thats what happens when there is so much money in the prem. Championships clubs spending more to get to the big time which also means some owners are not happy if they fail. If more money was filtered down the leagues it might help a little.
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December 28, 2017, 4:19pm |
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How mental is modern football, it's mental as anything
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KingstonMariner |
December 28, 2017, 6:16pm |
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The numbers involved in transfer fees, wages and bonuses is beyond my comprehension.
Someone once told me that it's literally not worth Gareth Bale's time to pick up a £1 coin from the floor. In the time it takes him to pick it up, he'd have earned more from his Real Madrid contract.
I know what you mean but that's not correct is it? Unless picking up the £1 coin prevented him from receiving his pay from Madrid. Either way, the whole thing is mad.There's something seriously wrong in a society where people earn astronomical sums and there's people sleeping rough in places like Cleethorpes.
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December 28, 2017, 9:36pm |
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Football is not that big. If you added all the football teams in the country together they wouldn't even make a FTSE 100 company. Compared to the Googles and Apples of this world even our biggest football clubs are corner shops.
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