TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I honestly don't know enough about him but I don't think it would be a good call. We just spent 20m on a 28 year old Allan.
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Yeh, to play him in a role he hasn't done. Allan is a good player just not in the right system.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
That's fair but even then his legs are going and he's not staying fit.
I just think this team is so far away from top half level that you've got to try and find guys who can be helpful 3 or 4 years from now too. And this dude might be but the percentages are lower.
Well I'm more worried about how we perform in the next 1-2 seasons, I'd drop £20m to help our survival. I understand your point but also think you're looking at players maybe 2 years younger than you should worry about.
We need quality at DM more than resale value. He could play well into his 30s with good technique, like a Fernandinho.
There's the comparison I was looking for.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
That's why I said too. I still believe we can do both. Find someone to contribute now who might hang on to that level awhile.
I know it's a different situation but back in the day there was a lot of "buy guys who can get us into Europe now and go from there." But that leaves you screwed if it doesn't go exactly right.
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £60m
Agree, far too many worrying about resale values with some of our transfer links at the moment, we need to just get the right players in, that's more important imo.
kstoffee11
Player Valuation: £500k
As some have mentioned before, Betis are in pretty bad financial shape and have recently been hit with UEFA ban for FFP, etc. €40m is not happening. I bet somewhere in the range of €18-22m would get this deal done assuming we don’t try and pay with IOUs for 5 years
I'd bet 20m with 5-10m down the line would make it an easy yes from Betis.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
I like this rumour its not an obvious one and he looks to have physicality and distribution. Can we afford it I hope so.
For me, daft as it sounds it just depends how good he is. If they've identified him as the target for what they're looking for in that role and are happy that he can do all the things he needs to be able to do then I can accept paying decent money for him. I do have an issue if they've worked their way down a list and are just seeing him as an option that they may be able to get over the line. Allan was just a rank bad signing, it was clear by about his 3rd game that he couldn't do the job we'd seemingly earmarked him for which is unforgivable really. I'd rather we didn't sign players in this age bracket at the moment but if we do we need to be absolutely certain that they're what we need.
*Just to clarify i'm talking about if he was in the £20m bracket here, spending £30m+ on a 28 year old just has to be a hard no in our position at the moment.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Isn't it 40m euros so that means it's closer to 38m we can also try and reduce that and spread the costs over his contract
Rooney_Tunes
Player Valuation: £50m
I thought I outlined where the money would come from?
ZissouBlue
Player Valuation: £8m
Yeah and this highlights the difficult position the club is in. If you invest in someone with little resale value, you're playing the same dangerous game that got us into this mess. But on the other hand, the money is very, very well spent if it keeps us up. The prospects who can come in and make a big immediate impact are going to cost an arm and a leg and/or be on the radar of much better clubs. The model we need to get to is being able to sell a Richarlison for 60m and then invest in two high potential 20m players mixed in with someone in their prime. There's really no good option unfortunately unless we find some money in the couch cushions. The CM situation is so dire that if they could make it work, I'd be on board.
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