wee_od_88
Vital Football Hero
See....I'm pretty good at this scouting malarky! Haha! :emoticon:15 :emoticon:19 As you know I don't go on Twitter much these days so I hadn't heard that one at all. Good to see I'm on the right tracks potentially though!
I was having a look around and you've got CBs who are 22-24 and they're already valued at £3.5m+ and most of them are just playing for medium/small teams on the continent, no European or even international experience......so that tells you that if you want a CB of the sort of quality we do, we need to pay the money for it! Simunovic now looks a bit of a steal at £4-5m......prices everywhere are going up, even for defenders! It's knocking a few clubs back down to our level now though. Look at FC Basel.....look at Porto, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, these clubs were big hitters and were taking guys away from us and even competing with some of the biggest clubs in Europe....but they're now getting outbid and can't continue to keep forking out millions on players anymore. They can generally still splash more than we can but it's becoming a more level playing field. Put them next to a Stoke or a club like that though....Stoke can outbid them by about 2 or 3 times! Stoke just paid £18m for Kevin Wimmer from Spurs. He's not even played the equivalent of 4 full seasons, probably about 3.5 seasons over the last 5 years and is only valued around £6.5m......but he probably had 2 or 3 years left on his deal and he wasn't first choice......but he still sells for £18m! It's just crazy! That's the reason we are going to have to spend at least £4-5m on a new CB.
I was having a look around and you've got CBs who are 22-24 and they're already valued at £3.5m+ and most of them are just playing for medium/small teams on the continent, no European or even international experience......so that tells you that if you want a CB of the sort of quality we do, we need to pay the money for it! Simunovic now looks a bit of a steal at £4-5m......prices everywhere are going up, even for defenders! It's knocking a few clubs back down to our level now though. Look at FC Basel.....look at Porto, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, these clubs were big hitters and were taking guys away from us and even competing with some of the biggest clubs in Europe....but they're now getting outbid and can't continue to keep forking out millions on players anymore. They can generally still splash more than we can but it's becoming a more level playing field. Put them next to a Stoke or a club like that though....Stoke can outbid them by about 2 or 3 times! Stoke just paid £18m for Kevin Wimmer from Spurs. He's not even played the equivalent of 4 full seasons, probably about 3.5 seasons over the last 5 years and is only valued around £6.5m......but he probably had 2 or 3 years left on his deal and he wasn't first choice......but he still sells for £18m! It's just crazy! That's the reason we are going to have to spend at least £4-5m on a new CB.