Burnwinter wrote:
Bit catastrophic Claude.
Other than the injection of vast amounts of capital into the whole sport, which would in turn require the commercial value of broadcast packages to somehow skyrocket further and would see that money rapidly filter out to the lesser clubs, there's no force on earth that can sustain valuations approaching £200m for a significant number of players (say enough to field an XI vs XI) at the moment.
It's probably doable in the instance that a club has the money. Last year they had a 520m Euro revenue. If they are smart and sign this guy on to a very long contract (5 years), then they can ammortize that 200m Euro over 5 years to 40m per year. Problem is once they add wages of 20m Euro a year, then you're sitting at 60m Euro cost per year to have the guy. That's some 12% of revenue. I imagine they will have to sell to make it happen, but fortunately for them, they have an abundance of wonderful players who can be disposed.
For us specifically, I do not expect a sudden surge of 200m pound players, but such a price legitimises your 90m pound Pogba and your 50m pound Walkers. It probably emboldens Monaco to stick with the alleged valuations of Lemar and Mbappe
I'm not sickened by the Neymar price as others are simply because of the vastness of it. I hate it because only 3-4 clubs could in the present day ever dream of spending anything approaching that kind of money. It's a real 1% club that makes football feel ugly and unequal
