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Please educate us. No one is asking for an 80m player in January breh. All we needed was a solid replacement for Partey and Jorginho aint it. Imagine Xhaka and Jorginho starting important games down the stretch. That's where we are today unless some of our defenders can fill that role.
It's like cats forgot this dude lead a not that talented Chelsea team to a UCL and Italy to a Euros. Let just ignore that, let's ignore he has better numbers than Elneny, let's ignore he only cost a fraction of what the other transfers would have been. Let's also ignore the fact that splashing the cash in a situation of power isn't the flex people think it is. Not taking this window into account, look at the money Chelsea already spent...look at where they are in the table.
In my group chat, we were discussing the lasting impact of Chelsea’s conduct over the last two windows. This egregious level of overpaying is now gonna have fans (and media) from every other big club kick up a fuss if their team isn’t willing to pay 50m over market value. I’m already seeing it with the fan channels that are upset that Arsenal didn’t pay the 80m for Caicedo and didn’t pay the 100m for Mudryk.
The fact that fans will now be demanding clubs pay 100m for players with less than a season worth of games under their belt is
I like Caicedo but someone with an 80m price tag should literally jump out at you every time you watch them play.
Its Monopoly money at this point and its insane. If I was a young academy talent in the Prem I'd be really worried. Most of these guys are going to have to go the Bellingham route and play in Germany or France before even getting a sniff of the PL. That's really bizarre to me. All of the teams I've enjoyed through the years have had talented cores of academy talent they've brought through the ranks. That paradigm is getting blown up and its sad to see.
Also, inflation is a thing so 100m now is basically 70m a decade ago. But to your point, 100m for a player should be game changing, team changing. If Mudryk is 100m then what's Mbappe's worth? 180m? 200m? Because you can look at him and PERHAPS 2 or 3 other players under 25 that can take matches over and win them nearly single handedly.
Supply demand rhetoric and barriers to entry dictate overall value. The notion of real player value is meaningless in football. I mean Jack Grealish for gods sake.
It's sad, man. I used to love when people took the time to research players, watch other leagues etc. I remember my homies who followed Serie A talking about players like Leao in 2019/2020. One of my good friends put me up on Camavinga when he was at the Rennes II. People don't take pride in doing their homework on players.
