[han2503]

I was going to post this yesterday but I left it for today, which is a shame since people are rating the mercato in the transfers thread already. (Maybe we can move those posts here so we can close that thread?)

This is a rundown of the transfers we made and the profits/money spent on transfers.

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We loaned even more Primavera kids than in these charts but majority of them never even stepped onto the pitch for us. I used various sources to get my numbers, mostly Gazzetta for the wages to try to be as accurate as I can with the number

[kurtsimonw]

I'd say 7.

I think letting Balo go for a relatively small amount and not replacing him with any kind of real quality loses some marks. I'm also disappointed with selling Cristante. A few transfers, like Torres, that I'm not happy with.

However I think we bought in quite a bit of depth for not much money. Rami and Alex mean 4 serviceable CBs now. Glad to have Poli permanently, Armero is a big upgrade on Constant and will mean MDS being injured isn't as big of an issue now. Bonaventura I'm pleased with, same with Menez. Diego Lopez is a very good signing.

[han2503]

I'd say 7.

I think letting Balo go for a relatively small amount and not replacing him with any kind of real quality loses some marks. I'm also disappointed with selling Cristante. A few transfers, like Torres, that I'm not happy with.

However I think we bought in quite a bit of depth for not much money. Rami and Alex mean 4 serviceable CBs now. Glad to have Poli permanently, Armero is a big upgrade on Constant and will mean MDS being injured isn't as big of an issue now. Bonaventura I'm pleased with, same with Menez. Diego Lopez is a very good signing.

Agreed on most counts, the Balo transfer mostly p!ssed me off because of the relatively small fee Liverpool paid us in this current market climate, not to mention the fact that they spent big money on much lesser players like Lovren and Lallana.

However, footballing wise, I think it was a good move, I'm not predicting that Torres will be a prolific scorer for us, but I think he'll fit Pippo's system much better

As I've said I'm pretty indifferent to Cristante's departure, 6m for a kid who's only made 5 pro appearances with only 1 being as a starter is good business, and until Benfica sell him for 30m or something we can't really say it was otherwise at this point

[Danny]

Agreed on most counts, the Balo transfer mostly p!ssed me off because of the relatively small fee Liverpool paid us in this current market climate,

Real paid £20M for Kroos - who's surely worth double that in this climate.

[han2503]

Real paid £20M for Kroos - who's surely worth double that in this climate.

Last I read it was 34m Euros, don't know if the £ -> € would bring that conversion, but 34m is a lot of money still.

We sold Balo too cheaply, especially when Liverpool spent £25m on Lallana and were the second highest spenders in the EPL.

They bought Carroll for twice what we sold them Balo for (!!), It's the usual with us, Galliani just lowballs prices for our players. You think if Balo was at Porto for example, even with all his problems, they would let him go for just €20m??

[Danny]

Last I read it was 34m Euros, don't know if the £ -> € would bring that conversion, but 34m is a lot of money still.

We sold Balo too cheaply, especially when Liverpool spent £25m on Lallana and were the second highest spenders in the EPL.

They bought Carroll for twice what we sold them Balo for (!!), It's the usual with us, Galliani just lowballs prices for our players. You think if Balo was at Porto for example, even with all his problems, they would let him go for just €20m??

Well Benfica let Luiz with his problems go for the same value so, yeah, probably.

Re: Carroll and Lallana. English players cost double what they're worth. Look at Welbeck for £18M.