Pablo Escobar
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First time I've ever seen big McPherson valued at 20M.....FF always delivers.
Was buckled at this as well... Big Shirley
First time I've ever seen big McPherson valued at 20M.....FF always delivers.
If they were going from English club to English club then I’d sayJust a bit of fun ,going by the crazy prices being paid in England just now what would be the current value of
Goran 30 mill
Robertson 25 mill
Gough 75 mill
McPherson 20 mill
Brown 15 mill
Ferguson 40 mill
Steven 50 mill
McCall 30 mill
Durrant 80 mill
Hayeley 40 mill
McCoist 40 mill
Any views on values , Ian Ferguson ?
We never signed Bryan Robson.If you mean big Butcher I think it was around 800 grandWhat did England’s captain come to us for?
If you mean Butcher he had left the club a year or two before . Think the magnificent bastard paid around 3/4 million if i remember
Remember that team we came very very close to winning the whole thing and that was only 17 years ago not sure but think it was the proper champions cup only league winners great memories .Think my estimation of Durrant might be on the low side going by today's figures
Was about 800kIf you mean Butcher he had left the club a year or two before . Think the magnificent bastard paid around 3/4 million if i remember
Was also helped by the English Europe ban I thinkNot a chance. That would have been close to a world record fee at the time.
Just looked it up. It was £725k. The world record fee at the time was £5mill for Maradonna going Barca to Napoli.
Edit: I knew he was before the European run. Just thinking of a yardstick from a not dissimilar financial era. It was a time when we could afford to buy England's captain and England’s captain would come to us.
Just a bit of fun ,going by the crazy prices being paid in England just now what would be the current value of
Goran 30 mill
Robertson 25 mill
Gough 75 mill
McPherson 20 mill
Brown 15 mill
Ferguson 40 mill
Steven 50 mill
McCall 30 mill
Durrant 80 mill
Hayeley 40 mill
McCoist 40 mill
Any views on values , Ian Ferguson ?
Just remembered Scott Nisbets goal against Club Brugge what other player in the world could have scored that goal at Ibrox never seen one like that before or since and ive been watching football a long long time lol
Was also helped by the English Europe ban I think
None of course as football has changed massively with moneyYes. Of course.
But, if English clubs were banned from Europe today, how many of their first team would end up at us do you think?
Starting Anew in my post I said 3/4 million you must have misread it not 34 but three quarters of a millionNot a chance. That would have been close to a world record fee at the time.
Just looked it up. It was £725k. The world record fee at the time was £5mill for Maradonna going Barca to Napoli.
Edit: I knew he was before the European run. Just thinking of a yardstick from a not dissimilar financial era. It was a time when we could afford to buy England's captain and England’s captain would come to us.
Only person in the world that would have said he meant that was Sally was right behind that the ball turned 90 degrees in the rough funny as f***To be fair, I don’t think Nisbet had the slightest intention of doing that.
If Maradonna scored the Hand of God, Nisbet scored the Act of God.
Starting Anew in my post I said 3/4 million you must have misread it not 34 but three quarters of a million
None of course as football has changed massively with money
SorryApologies.
In typical FF fashion, i’ll insist I was still right. You were way over by a whole £25k!! That’s like Butcher’s whole left shin!!!
lolApologies.
In typical FF fashion, i’ll insist I was still right. You were way over by a whole £25k!! That’s like Butcher’s whole left shin!!!
Only if the point was make up some random numbers and write them down next to the greatest rangers team in the last 40 years.I think someone has missed the point....
I’d be looking at todays comparable players for a guide.
For example, would van Dijk be as good as Gough?
Goram or the Liverpool lad?
McCoist and Hateley or Kane and Rashford?
I get you’re point.Van Dijk went to Southampton from the SPFL for about £15m. He’s since been transferred for five times that amount and is now rated as a £100m player.
The point there though is that his value only increased exponentially after his move to the Premiership.
It’s unlikely that Gough, even at his peak, could command a similar fee today unless he had been doing it in the EPL first.
However, as a counterpoint to that argument, Trevor Steven left for Marseille in 1991 for a record £5.2m.
The world record at the time was £8m for Roberto Baggio the previous year.
Were that relative to today’s market, Steven would have gone for in excess of £100m.
Yes, more than Brown as well!First time I've ever seen big McPherson valued at 20M.....FF always delivers.
We bought Gough from Spurs and he was their captain, but I never realised he much of a huge fee we got for Steven at the current values then .Van Dijk went to Southampton from the SPFL for about £15m. He’s since been transferred for five times that amount and is now rated as a £100m player.
The point there though is that his value only increased exponentially after his move to the Premiership.
It’s unlikely that Gough, even at his peak, could command a similar fee today unless he had been doing it in the EPL first.
However, as a counterpoint to that argument, Trevor Steven left for Marseille in 1991 for a record £5.2m.
The world record at the time was £8m for Roberto Baggio the previous year.
Were that relative to today’s market, Steven would have gone for in excess of £100m.
Van Dijk went to Southampton from the SPFL for about £15m. He’s since been transferred for five times that amount and is now rated as a £100m player.
The point there though is that his value only increased exponentially after his move to the Premiership.
It’s unlikely that Gough, even at his peak, could command a similar fee today unless he had been doing it in the EPL first.
However, as a counterpoint to that argument, Trevor Steven left for Marseille in 1991 for a record £5.2m.
The world record at the time was £8m for Roberto Baggio the previous year.
Were that relative to today’s market, Steven would have gone for in excess of £100m.
Think there are 2 different things going on here.
Firstly: how good were the players compared to those in the SPL now. I think that there is a reasonable view that most of them are better than anyone currently in the SPL.
Secondly: how do you rate Scottish transfer prices and what era are you looking at? Personally I think that there is now a ceiling for Scottish prices. Probably somewhere between £20-30mill. And that a player in England is automatically worth more than the same player in Scotland. You see that withthe likes of van Dijk. However, in the era we are talking about, the Scottish and English markets were much more similar. Top English players would come to us and English prices for top players were similar to Scottish prices.
If you say that current market values were transposed to ‘93 then you would very reasonably expect Gough etc to go for close to £100mill. If you transpose the ‘93 players to the present then they are locked by the Scottish ceiling so almost all would go for around £20-30mill. I think the question is more interesting in the first scenario.
I think it's actually a decent topic for discussion, but it lends itself to overblown fantasy football scenarios where Rangers get to rake in hundreds of millions of pounds for those players in today's market while more or less ignoring the seismic changes that have gone on in English and European football since then in terms of the billions on offer via the Premiership and Champions League and how we and Scottish football were quickly devalued as a result of being unable to compete with that level of finance to the point where - and we're in agreement on this - there is now a ceiling of about £20-25m max for any Scottish based player.
Taking Gough as an example then, we would not have been able to afford him from Spurs after his move from Tannadice in today's market. He would have instantly been priced out of our range after one successful season at White Hart Lane.
The same would also be true of many players we bought at that time, a lot of them courtesy of English football's European ban, so a workable context is needed to give the thing any real merit.