Examples of EPL clubs overspending on players

[Papac5]

Torres and Shevchenko to Chelsea. About £80 million spunked on they two. £26 million for Soldado to go to Spurs was a bit mental as well.

Although £9 million for Hutton, £8 million for Boumsong and almost £7 million for Flo is using the inflated English market well.

 

[Herbie53]

Benteke, 41m I’m sure his fee to Liverpool was
Sanchez to United
David Luiz, don’t know what his fee was but whatever it ended up being was too much

 

[55degreesnorth]

Solanke 20m

/Thread.

 

[Molly Sugden's Bridesmaid]

English football is a bubble. To the extent that when you say 'overspending' what are you measuring it against? Martyn Waghorn is a good example. Decent professional, hard working, nothing more than that. Leaves us for less than £1m and within a year transfers within England for £5m.

The volume of the TV deals down there means that you can't use transfer fees as a metric to compare with elsewhere in the world.

 

[Ke55y]

Martial at utd transfer fee and wages so far over 100million ooft he ain't very good

 

[WinkieWATP]

It’s amazing to think of the money you have to spend just to stand still down there. Everton for example spent £107m last season and look likely to finish bottom half.

 

[Molly Sugden's Bridesmaid]

Andy Carroll £35m

That was on the back of Liverpool selling Torres wasn't it? I remember seeing the £35m fee and assuming there was a decimal point missing, and even then thinking it was a bit steep.

 

[StuGers]

Everton in the same transfer window they signed Sigurdsson, they also signed Davy Klaasen for £25m, Cenk Tosun for £28m and Theo Walcott for £20m.

Jeezo, Walcott is a blast from the past. Whatever happened to him!?

 

[MearnsUnionist]

Tierney £25m played a few games recently but overall hardly played for Arsenal

He now seems very popular with their support and has been playing well.

Horrible papish bast**d, but was always a good full back, when fit.

Compared to David Luiz, he looks an absolute snip.

 

[WinkieWATP]

Jeezo, Walcott is a blast from the past. Whatever happened to him!?

Still at Everton. Still pish.

 

[Stevethebluenose90]

Man City spending £60 million on Cancelo, bet 95% of posters on here have never heard of him.

Pepe to Arsenal - £72 million

Di Maria to Man Utd - £67 million

Torres to Chelsea - £50 million (his knees were fucked)

Kepa to Chelsea - £70 million

Wilfred Bony to Man City - £29 million

 

[willowbankbear]

What an imposter he has been. Doesn’t look interested...

mental tho , fat mike smashed the Newcastle transfer record on that waster who has been a massive let down.

 

[CaliforniaBlue1872]

It’s amazing to think of the money you have to spend just to stand still down there. Everton for example spent £107m last season and look likely to finish bottom half.

Rampant mismanagement

Off the back of this thread I was texting a mate thats an Everton fan, some notables over recentish years:

Schneiderlin - over £20 million
Richarlison - £35 million potentially rising to 50
Sigurdsson - £40 million
Walcott - £20 million
Pickford - £25 million
Iwobi - £28 million
Micheal Keane - £25 million

As he said, all that for essentially no return. Absolute madness

 

[Sutton_Blows_goats]

André Zambo Anguissa Fulham 23 million
Jean_Michaël_Seri fulham 27 million

 

[Goity]

Rampant mismanagement

Off the back of this thread I was texting a mate thats an Everton fan, some notables over recentish years:

Schneiderlin - over £20 million
Richarlison - £35 million potentially rising to 50
Sigurdsson - £40 million
Walcott - £20 million
Pickford - £25 million
Iwobi - £28 million
Micheal Keane - £25 million

As he said, all that for essentially no return. Absolute madness

Jesus, Pickford for £25 mil, and we ended up letting Fod's contract run out because we couldn't find a buyer

 

[Tom1974]

Watched Norwich v Brighton on Saturday and remembered the old Super Ally joke about his 2nd touch was a tackle. The overall standard of play was disgraceful and God knows how much they are worth/earning.

 

[LLLG]

Solanke 20m

End of thread really

 

[Tony75tfc]

Just thinking about the players chelsea have let go in the past , mo salah , lukaku , de bruyne think they got around £70m for the 3 of them ,would cost you more than that for de bruyne now

 

[temperance]

Solanke 20m

Yet Alfie is only worth £8-10m

 

[cav]

Interesting that Chelsea got Werner for next season at 45 million with him just entering his prime- an indicator that covid is maybe slowing the madness down slightly,although I doubt it’ll last.

 

[Gee11]

Joelinton £40 million
Sebastien Haller £45 million
Wesley £22 million

 

[Mr Aqua]

I think a harder thread to think about is good bargains in the EPL.

 

[DoitdoitdoitnowWATP]

Joelinton 40m

Crazy when you think how much money they can waste.

 

[RodVegas]

Basically every player in the EPL.

 

[Jonathan E]

I'm still shaking my head at Tierney to Arsenal for £25 million.

I don't think even a fully fit Tierney is worth half of that.

 

[sandyinroyalblue]

The problem with all of these signings is that the players worth £1m or less suddenly have their agents rating them at £10 to 20m and demanding wages to match and the spiral continues upwards until it all implodes

 

[Corkinator]

Pogba 89m

 

[Graemeh89]

I'm still shaking my head at Tierney to Arsenal for £25 million.

I don't think even a fully fit Tierney is worth half of that.

It’s ridiculous on the face of it , but Arsenal fans seem happy with the signing they see him as one of their best players , even after only playing a few games. And for his age 25 million probably isn’t that crazy when you see the other prices for average players on this thread.

 

[Graemeh89]

I think a harder thread to think about is good bargains in the EPL.

Vardy for a million has to be one of the best bargains in epl history.

 

[Moodiesburn Blue]

He now seems very popular with their support and has been playing well.

Horrible papish bast**d, but was always a good full back, when fit.

Compared to David Luiz, he looks an absolute snip.

That’s true whenever I see Luiz I always wonder how on earth he made it as a footballer. Hits a not bad free kick but that’s about it but to play for the teams he has he must have something

 

[lou riccios chipshop]

I think a harder thread to think about is good bargains in the EPL.

Although it's still a lot of money and I don't like him,
£20 million for Rio Ferdinand. Is saying that easy with hindsight?

Nice contrast to Vardy. Vastly different amounts of money.

 

[WinkieWATP]

Joelinton £40 million
Sebastien Haller £45 million
Wesley £22 million

Do they even have ten goals between them?

 

[WinkieWATP]

I think a harder thread to think about is good bargains in the EPL.

Mahrez cost Leicester around about £400k, won the title then left for £60m.

 

[Mr Aqua]

Mahrez cost Leicester around about £400k, won the title then left for £60m.

Now that's a good one!

 

[John Wilson]

Vardy for a million has to be one of the best bargains in epl history.

Leicester were in the Championship when they bought him.

 

[John Wilson]

Sol Campbell on a free was decent business.

 

[htws]

Now that's a good one!

He nearly signed for St.Mirren, but it was raining in Glasgow that day, he thought it would be warmer down south!

 

[John Wilson]

One that was a big miss was Lewandowski to Blackburn in 2010. Was booked in to fly over and sign, then the volcanic ash cloud stopped his flight and Dortmund swooped in.

 

[WinkieWATP]

One that was a big miss was Lewandowski to Blackburn in 2010. Was booked in to fly over and sign, then the volcanic ash cloud stopped his flight and Dortmund swooped in.

Never heard that one before.

 

[Wugs]

Mahomes signs 10-year deal with Chiefs

NFL star Patrick Mahomes signs a 10-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs reported to be worth a record $503m (£403m).

www.bbc.co.uk

Even more obscene

 

[Graemeh89]

Leicester were in the Championship when they bought him.

Still turned out to be a great bargain

 

[Leeonell Tidy]

99% of Man Utd signings since Cantona

 

[Gee11]

Do they even have ten goals between them?

Yes it's a grand total of 14 goals
Joelinton 2
Sebastien Haller 7
Wesley 5

 

[Blueranger45]

Mahrez cost Leicester around about £400k, won the title then left for £60m.

maybe not as good but Kante cost £5.5m and went to Chelsea for £32m

in a sort of similar vein (although not for Chelsea) Drinkwater came to Leicester from Man Utd for practically nothing and left for £35m

 

[northeast6]

Pepe at 72 million has got to be one of the worst ever

 

[zooranger]

Way bit back but Seth Johnson at Leeds, £7m for 54 games over 4years and 30 grand a week

 

[maisbifanas]

Kepa to Chelsea

 

[RangersLad1983]

There are loads of them.

Gylfi Sigurdsson at 45m.

Tierney at 25m.

Shkodran Mustafi at 35m

Bakayoko at 40m

Zappacosta at 28m

Drinkwater at 35m

Others?

Joelinton £40 million. McBurnie £20 million. solanke £20 million.

 

[last minute signing]

Two deals immediately strike me from this season.

Joao Cancelo for £60m and Sebastien Haller for £45m.

Horrid value for money.

To back this point up, I’ve got zero idea who he is, what team he plays for, or what position he plays. Also no idea if he’s in his national team or who he was with previously.

 

[11 ALBERTZ]

Going far back but Emile Heskey 11m to Liverpool from Leicester, not the worst transfer but by god he was crap