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When did transfer fees go from being accepted, to outright ludicrous? For me, it was when we paid £35m for Andy Carroll - still the most shockingly over priced transfer I've ever heard of. By a mile.
The reason I bring this up is because I've just heard that Leicester are prepared to pay £8m for James Chester. Let that sink in.........
Who the hell is James Chester?!!??! And where has a figure of £8m come from?
The new TV deal isn't actually helping the top clubs as much as I thought it would. It's actually helping the smaller/selling clubs as they can now get obscene amounts of money for virtually unheard of squad members.
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I think it was when Blackburn bought Chris Sutton. I know the fee wasn't high but it seemed to be the one that started the ball rolling into the massive fees today.
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Chelsea haven't helped. Again. Signing Chris Sutton for £10mil.
Things were starting to die down. Then city happened. Once lescott goes for £24mil people start comparing players and fees.
£8mil for Chester though. I agree. Is a joke. Even Robbie Brady is going for £7mil
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When did transfer fees go from being accepted, to outright ludicrous? For me, it was when we paid £35m for Andy Carroll - still the most shockingly over priced transfer I've ever heard of. By a mile.
The reason I bring this up is because I've just heard that Leicester are prepared to pay £8m for James Chester. Let that sink in.........
Who the hell is James Chester?!!??! And where has a figure of £8m come from?
The new TV deal isn't actually helping the top clubs as much as I thought it would. It's actually helping the smaller/selling clubs as they can now get obscene amounts of money for virtually unheard of squad members. The new TV deal will just up the transfer fees and wages as all EPL clubs will be earning more and that are all competing for players. It will help teams to get better players abroad and will make the EPL have better players. The winners are ulmimately players and losers will be the subscribers who will end up paying more (maybe) subscription for the same product (one could however say better product as there will be better players in the EPL.
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I think it was when Blackburn bought Chris Sutton. I know the fee wasn't high but it seemed to be the one that started the ball rolling into the massive fees today. Funnily enough, Sutton's move to Blackburn for £5m was the first time I remember being shocked at a high fee! At the time, it seemed insane and the papers were saying that it could never be justified.
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I think it was when Blackburn bought Chris Sutton. I know the fee wasn't high but it seemed to be the one that started the ball rolling into the massive fees today. Funnily enough, Sutton's move to Blackburn for £5m was the first time I remember being shocked at a high fee! At the time, it seemed insane and the papers were saying that it could never be justified. Yeah, same here. I seem to remember it being like Norwich asking for silly money and Blackburn saying OK. But since the big TV money has come into the game that's when it went truly through the roof. Wages too since City got taken over.
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Middlesborough are trying to land Jordan Rhodes from Blackburn for £10 mil - the championship FFS. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footbal...dan-Rhodes.htmlAnd people on here think we should just give away Mario??? We will have offers, the world's gone mad.
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The problem is all the money is going into the premiership the rest of British football is left out but not only that european football is suffering I did hear burnley are wealthier than AC Milan which is insane the TV money in the premiership is creating a false market
IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY
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Personally, I think Jordan Rhodes for £10m+ isn't a bad piece of business. As far as I'm aware he's never been any problem off the field and has scored bags of goals every year - an average of more than 25 per season for the last 6 years on the bounce. In the right team he's superb.
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The problem is all the money is going into the premiership the rest of British football is left out but not only that european football is suffering I did hear burnley are wealthier than AC Milan which is insane the TV money in the premiership is creating a false market The money is all filtering down though. Championship clubs and overseas clubs are fully aware of the riches available and can comfortably double a players value when an EPL team shows interest.
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