Players costing city over 20m

[Michael Brookes]

A pop quiz given the non event of today. My source says there were ten.....

[Mase]

Dzeko
Balo
Silva
Tevez
Sergio
Nasri
Adebayor
Robinho
Milner (even though we paid under £20 million we added Ireland
Joleen

Can't think of the others

[Moonchesteri]

Lescott

[Foreverinbluedreams]

11 - Yaya

[I Just Blue Myself]

[Michael Brookes]

fuck me we have wasted alot of money

[bobby brows]

19m

sorry.

[Alioune DVToure]

fuck me we have wasted alot of money

All the players in that list are pretty good. We've wasted a lot more money on mid-range players and long-term contracts over the years.

[Dunnylad]

All the players in that list are pretty good. We've wasted a lot more money on mid-range players and long-term contracts over the years.

Yep Wayne Bridge, RSC, Danny Mills to name but 3, we were / are desperate for their contracts to run out

[Michael Brookes]

fuck me we have wasted alot of money

All the players in that list are pretty good. We've wasted a lot more money on mid-range players and long-term contracts over the years.

True but how many in that list are worth more than 20m?

Dzeko -ok
Balo - no
Silva- ok
Tevez- ok
Sergio -ok
Nasri- no
Adebayor - no
Robinho - arguably
Milner - no
Joleen - no
Yaya - ok

and then as you say there's the likes of:
Jo - 19 but worth more like 3
NDJ - good player but didnt we spend outrageous cash?
RSC - 17ish worth 2-3
kolarov - worth about half of what we payed

For any other club thats catastrophic

[sheblue]

I think NDJ was about 16m or so when we signed him, mad money. Jo must be the biggest waste.
Dzeko, nasri, kolarov and many others not worth what we paid for them either.
Cavani can fuck off with his 50m buy out clause.

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

I don't think RSC can count towards the overpriced players as that deal was very, very fishy.

[Socrates]

Take Out Mario, according to Inter's accounts we paid 22 million euros, the exchange rate at the time was around 0.82 so that was approx £18 million

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Take Out Mario, according to Inter's accounts we paid 22 million euros, the exchange rate at the time was around 0.82 so that was approx £18 million

How much did Raiola get?

[Foreverinbluedreams]

fuck me we have wasted alot of money

All the players in that list are pretty good. We've wasted a lot more money on mid-range players and long-term contracts over the years.

True but how many in that list are worth more than 20m?

Dzeko -ok
Balo - no
Silva- ok
Tevez- ok
Sergio -ok
Nasri- no
Adebayor - no
Robinho - arguably
Milner - no
Joleen - no
Yaya - ok

and then as you say there's the likes of:
Jo - 19 but worth more like 3
NDJ - good player but didnt we spend outrageous cash?
RSC - 17ish worth 2-3
kolarov - worth about half of what we payed

For any other club thats catastrophic

Did we not just get £20m for Balo?

[Dunnylad]

Did we not just get £20m for Balo?

£19m according to Sky last night - there's add ons, but there probably is in the above figures

[Beanieboy]

Did we not pay 27 for Garcia?

[Beanieboy]

Did we not pay 27 for Garcia?

Just checked, it was 17.....still ridiculous

[Alioune DVToure]

Who's to say that Milner and Lescott weren't worth what we paid for them? They have been - and still are - very good players for us.

It wouldn't have been worth Sunderland or Villa paying that kind of money for them but they've made a vital difference for us.

[Cocacolajojo1]

I think the debate regarding if some player is worth something or not is pretty weird. I mean, go ahead and have it. But the idea that a player is a steal or a bargain when he costs 5 (or whatever we bought kompany for) million is absurd. 5 million pound for a person is an absurd amount of money.

I don't get the scale. Is there a scale or are we just applying some sort of common sense value to players worth more money than most of us will ever handle or can imagine having?

And I agree with ADTV, in the sense that a player is worth whatever we pay for him, as long as it's within our means and he performs for us.