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Art

Some noise about Sanchez to City today which is probably almost certainly bs. But if he does go to a rival, maybe we could flog him off to Man U in exchange for Martial and some money.

Bold Tone

mdgoonah41 wrote:
here is the list of fullbacks who have been sold for more than £35m:

the end.

😆

Seriously though, didn't Barca pay over £30m for Alves which must be equivalent to more than double that in today's money?
Also players like Lahm, in his prime, would have commanded similarly astronomical price tags as Barca tagged a £90m buy-out clause on Alves.

mdgoonah41

according to wikipedia, alves cost £23m up front and £7m in add-ons when he went from sevilla to barca. he went on a free to juve.

luke shaw cost about £30m i believe. supposedly mendy is moving for big money. point is, no fullback has ever cost more than £35m, which might change this summer, but to assume we'd just get £50m for bellerin is a bit of a fantasy given his "down" season he just had.

Ricky1985

And Barcelona loathe to pay us anything for players that they consider we stole from them.

(Although in Bellerin's case they gave him to us, along with Jon Toral, as part of the Fabregas deal)

Ricky1985

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QuincyAbeyie

Bold Tone wrote:
mdgoonah41 wrote:
here is the list of fullbacks who have been sold for more than £35m:

the end.

😆

Seriously though, didn't Barca pay over £30m for Alves which must be equivalent to more than double that in today's money?
Also players like Lahm, in his prime, would have commanded similarly astronomical price tags as Barca tagged a £90m buy-out clause on Alves.

You can't really compare with Alves though. At one point he was the second best player at Barcelona after Messi. We're not even sure whether it's Bellerin or Ox who deserves the RWB spot the most. And the ridiculously high buy-out clauses in Spain can be ignored. Let's put it this way: We don't have a buy-out clause on Bellerin. If we had a buy-out clause on Bellerin for £1000 million, the situation would be the same, it'd still be like not having a clause. Since buy-out clauses are obligatory in Spain, they try to make them as big as possible so they can act if they aren't there.

Klaus

Transfer fees tend to be as much about opportunity as quality though. Raheem Sterling is still the 4th most expensive Premier League transfer of all time. You can't really compare the market 10 years ago with the market today where transfer fees are heavily inflated across the board. If a fullback in demand would move it would be for more than £35 million. Mendy, who has played a whopping 25 league games for Monaco so far, looks like he's going to be the first.

Qwiss

mdgoonah41 wrote:
here is the list of fullbacks who have been sold for more than £35m:

the end.

So you are saying no one is stupid enough to sell top class full backs.

Ray

The transfer market has obviously changed in the past year. Spuds are demanding £60m for Kyle Walker.

Bold Tone

Qwiss! wrote:
mdgoonah41 wrote:
here is the list of fullbacks who have been sold for more than £35m:

the end.

So you are saying no one is stupid enough to sell top class full backs.

😃 That's it in a nutshell.

QuincyAbeyie

Just saw that Giroud has three years left on his contract. We shouldn't sell him no matter if he wants out, he can go on a free after those three years.

Ricky1985

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Good lad.

Big Willie

Maybe true aboht the rumours but can the newspapers make up actual quotes?

jones

They do often enough. He's not exactly clearing things up with that shitty tweet though

USArsenal

Bellers aint going anywhere this summer

banduan

#sanogone

Bryant

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/3143603/denis-suarez-arsenals-hector-bellerin-is-torn-over-barcelona-move

Barca has began their tapping up tactic!

Anzac

Bryant wrote:
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/3143603/denis-suarez-arsenals-hector-bellerin-is-torn-over-barcelona-move

Barca has began their tapping up tactic!

Swap deal for Neymar,
the same with Citeh for Sanchez & Aguero,
and then Ozil can go back to RM for Isco/Morata.

BWoolley

Wouldn't swap Sanchez for Aguero. For Jesus/Sane, maybe.

Ricky1985

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I can understand why Giroud might want to go if we spend big on a striker, but I can't see us selling him without that happening - as L'Equipe seem to be suggesting. I'd still love him as the go-to man off the bench and in rotation but I don't see that as realistic personally.

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