Football Topic

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i stand by my point wich was you cannot expect someone to ever pay more than 30mil for a decent player . Not even Chelsea or Man city .
It's like me saying that selling Fabregas for anything less than 65 mil is a rip off

How can I not expect them to pay that much a decent player? Manchester City paid £22m-£24m for Joleon Lescott. Lescott!! They paid £26m for James Milner (including selling Steven Ireland) who is overrated and not worth that price range. There are plenty other players they've paid too much for.

English players are HIGHLY overpriced (we've been over this already), hence Henderson's price and Andy Carroll (though that was a panic buy). While Modric is not English if clubs like City are willing to pay this much money for overrated English players, why would they or Chelsea not pay over £30m for Modric?

It's not about what YOU value a player at, it's what the Premier League value a player at, in which Chelsea and City like to increase that valuation by quite a percentage and pay the amount without much thought.

The Torres deal can be forgiven as he was an amazing player for Liverpool, but Chelsea bought him when he was on his way out.

If young Michael Owen was around now playing the way he used to, I wouldn't put it past Chelsea or City to want to pay over £30m for him...even though I think that would be a reasonable price given the current market.