Qwiss! wrote:
jones wrote:
There's no way Aké is worth 20m ffs. Just because the English market has gone retarded doesn't make it acceptable to pay that kind of money for a solid midtable defender.
In this market he's easily worth £20m. Stones went for £50m and he's not that much better. We got seriously lucky with Holding.
Its a figure we should be paying attention to when selling our young English players though. If Chambers is moving he should cost just as much.
Stones is probably the worst pound for pound transfer in history though, not exactly a sensible comparison. Süle went to Bayern for about 18m this same window and is five times as talented. Fees everywhere have gone up but only in England would a kid like Aké command 20m.
Agree about the second part though. If the club had any balls or sense they would be proactive in flogging our British core to pseudo ambitious midtable asshole clubs. Wilshere for 40m to Palace, Gibbs for 15m to Newcastle etc pp. Add Ox to that list if the claims about him demanding guaranteed playing time or excessive wages are true
