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This has got my back up big time. It wasn’t that long ago I read Sean Dyche having a pop at Derby and M'boro for "spending big" and yet here he is shelling out 9m on Andre Gray??
On the subject of that fee. Madness. Any consistency on player valuation has gone completely out of the window recently in the last few seasons. It used to be that for 10m you'd get yourself a mid table quality premiership player, with 10-20m being for exceptional players and 20m+ for World class. In the last 2 seasons alone Ross McCormack has joined Fulham for 11m, Shane Long has gone to Southampton for 12m, Gray is apparently valued at 8/9m and Blackburn want 12m+ for Rhodes. Long aside, not one of those players has ANY premiership proven experience. Even Shane Long has never been prolific in the Premiership.
And then we have Charlie Austin. All ######## aside about his ability to pass a medical, he's been prolific at EVERY level he's played in, is at a decent age and finished 4th highest top goal scorer in the prem last season ahead of players that teams have paid almost double the poultry 15 million we are asking for.
WBA want 22m for Berahino and Spurs want 40m for Kane??
The more I think about it the more I think 15m is too low and we'd actually be getting our pants pulled down for that, and would be getting fully raped for anything less.
Complete and utter madness.
On the subject of that fee. Madness. Any consistency on player valuation has gone completely out of the window recently in the last few seasons. It used to be that for 10m you'd get yourself a mid table quality premiership player, with 10-20m being for exceptional players and 20m+ for World class. In the last 2 seasons alone Ross McCormack has joined Fulham for 11m, Shane Long has gone to Southampton for 12m, Gray is apparently valued at 8/9m and Blackburn want 12m+ for Rhodes. Long aside, not one of those players has ANY premiership proven experience. Even Shane Long has never been prolific in the Premiership.
And then we have Charlie Austin. All ######## aside about his ability to pass a medical, he's been prolific at EVERY level he's played in, is at a decent age and finished 4th highest top goal scorer in the prem last season ahead of players that teams have paid almost double the poultry 15 million we are asking for.
WBA want 22m for Berahino and Spurs want 40m for Kane??
The more I think about it the more I think 15m is too low and we'd actually be getting our pants pulled down for that, and would be getting fully raped for anything less.
Complete and utter madness.
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