Rich wrote:
BBC running a piece on the fire sale at Man U and how much some key players are valued at. Obviously everyone can debate values and really a player is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for them - but I always have 1 big bug bear with this. Players who cost an absolute fortune and fail to deliver in any way at all seem to still carry a value based on their previous transfer value.
Anthony for example, he cost Man U £90m, here he's valued at £63m, obviously a decent drop off from where he was quite rightly so. But if Man U had signed Anthony for a much more reasonable £20m, would he be valued at £63m based on his performances for Man U? of course not, so why his valuation of £63m is based probably 90% of his previous transfer value not his realistic value and current ability.
I would suggest that the actual values of the top 5 in that list would be 50% of what is shown here. The same for Onana and McTominey.
I saw another report saying Rashford could be available for 75 million. Even at that price I wouldn’t touch him with bargepole. He’s on 325k a week so walks through the door as our top earner, chuck in the fact he’s so inconsistent