BlackGold
Vital 1st Team Regular
Wages are different entirely
The market value is better determined by an estimate of what a number of clubs would be willing to pay, not just one with money burning a hole in its pocket.
Is Neymar's market value truly £200m just because that was what PSG were willing to pay? Is anyone else willing to pay that? Or able to?
But if Man Utd, Barcelona, Juventus etc were all happy to pay £140m to take him from PSG, wouldn't that be his real market value?
Nope.
One person sells, the other buys that’s a trade. If the seller prices out the buyers competition that’s to the sellers benefit and makes the market.
Fuethermore, whatever advantage the buyer has - money to burn - again, sets the market.
This is why parachute payments are hugely unfair as the ex-prem teams can price people out of the “market” through their spending power.