Sky Italia says that Madrid accepted Napoli's €40m bid for Higuain (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Read that earlier as well. Apparently all that's left is contract details. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

Napoli are seriously loaded but making idiotic moves imo.

The budget they had could have easily made them Scudetto competitors along with Juve but they've pretty much wasted it on average players

Callejon, Albiol, Higuain. Basically the unwanted guys at Madrid.

I agree about Albiol, but Callejon and Higuain are good singings IMO.

They're good players, don't get me wrong, but they are certainly not worth the price Napoli have paid for them.

We got Balo for 20m, to say Higuain is worth well over 30 is just ridiculous.

Jack mentioned every Club having fodder players they don't really need on the wage bill, but here's the difference. These guys were excess at Real but they managed to make a combined amount of over 60m for them. And we couldn't sell 2 of our dead weight for nothing if need be because no one wants to take them for the kind of money they've gotten used to earning at Milan

Higuain is a goal machine. He's scored 122 goals (plus 46 assists) in 266 games for Madrid. And he's only 25. Is he worth €40 million? I don't think so. But given the prices of today, it's not that crazy.

As for Callejon, they only paid €10 million.

Yeah, but they don't have an idiot running their transfers as we do (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

circumstances R7...circumstances.

Balo was having trouble at City though

Let's not forget he was photographed in a physical fight with his manager just a few days prior to being sold.

And this is the thing with us.

Either we're getting misfits or over the hill players.

Teams like Napoli, PSG, City, Monaco have to pay huge fees because just their club name cannot attract these guys so they simply outbid the competition.

Us on the other hand are a club that can compete with names like Real and Bayern when it comes to history and prestige, no we can't offer the type of wages that PSG are giving their players, but unless you're Messie or Ronaldo Real, Barca, Man U etc won't give you the ridiculous sums that PSG gave Ibra and Silva for example either.

Higuain is a productive player, but is no where near the level some of the top strikers around are at. He's just a run of the mill finisher with good skills. He's worth 15 to 20m at best. The amount they paid for him is just ridiculous.

I think you're underrating him. Cavani and Falaco are also run of the mill finishers with goods skills, but they score shitloads of goals, and so does Higuain.

In theory, yes, they are made out of the same mould in terms of categorizing strikers

But you really can't put him in the same bracket as Cavani or Falcoa.

He's certainly not good enough to justify the money they're paying for him imo

He's not in the same bracket as those 2, but he went for 20m or so less and I don't think he's 20m worse than those 2 ether. He'll score 20 or so league goals and that's what they need.

And score 2 or so goals in the CL (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) He usually did well in La liga (will have a harder time in Serie A, not sure he'll score above 20) but he really have a very poor CL record.

This post has been edited by Jack Bauer: Jul 22 2013, 06:30 PM

Well the market is inflated atm, because of the likes of PSG, City, etc.

But when you're thinking in the context of Napoli who do not have a sheik funding them than that kind of money is huge. Whereas the 60m PSG paid for Cavani is pretty much irrelevant.

So imo, Napoli made a terrible deal on this one. They could have easily gotten him for less as most of the interest in Higuain had dwindled down to basically nothing since Juve got Tevez and Arsenal are chasing Suarez shadows.


You have to consider this as well.

He's been prolific in La Liga but a bit of a failure in the CL. You have no guarantees that he'll be returning the kind of numbers he did in Spain while playing in Italy.

I just think that with the 60m Napoli paid Real to get those players they could have gotten better players had they not jumped the gun.

Yes, that is true.