QUOTE (Danny @ Jul 12 2015, 03:20 PM)
Isco was £24M. That's about 32M Euros.
I give you Verratti, but then Verratti wasn't hyped massively till his displays at PSG - and Pescara couldn't reasonably demand 30M.
Darmian is 25 and not a 'prospect'.
None of these guys I'm mentioning are teenagers. I think Darmian qualifies. Also the fact that he's not only just a prospect but a full fledged NT player who has tons of top flight experience at just the age of 25 should make him even more expensive than just a prospect.
Nah, he was hyped up at Pescara just as much as Insigne, however none of the Italian clubs were willing to pay for him because of the usual backwards mentality of Italian football that older is better and younger shouldn't be starting. Now he's lost forever to the Italian league imo, I seriously cannot see him playing in Serie A anytime in the near or distant future.
I'm sure had Pescara really tightened their hold they would have squeezed a crazy number out of PSG, but again, it's the mentality in Italian football that youngsters aren't really worth all that much, not until they reach a certain age.
QUOTE (Danny @ Jul 12 2015, 03:20 PM)
35M Euros for Lallana.
Thought he went for less, this mainly proves that English players are ridiculously over priced. In what reality is this guy worth 35m?
QUOTE (Danny @ Jul 12 2015, 03:20 PM)
Illarramendi - barely 23, cost £34M, that's 45-50M Euros.
So, no you don't. You pay what you're willing to, and what the recipient demands. And it's usually a compromise on market value.
Real over inflating prices as usual for a player who's barely had any first team action. All that is wrong in football right there.
Anyway, I think what this all proves is that it's the English and Spanish that are over priced as you say. Italian players aren't. Why? Because clubs are usually willing to jump at any decent fee offered to them. Look at Toro. They could have easily held out for at least 25m for Darmian, one of the best in his positions around right now imo. Yet, they jump on the 18m because every club in the league is desperate for cash.
Same with Verratti really. You think a club in Germany or Spain, no matter how small or poor they are would allow a talent like Verratti to go for the fee that he did?
So you're right about one bit that Spanish and English talent is overpriced but I don't agree that it's the same with the Italians. Which brings us back to Romagnoli. There is no way this guy is worth 30m, no matter if this market is over inflated and he's Italian.
20m is already stretching it way too much imo
Like I said, if Darmian is worth 18m, this guy at best is 10m