by From Despair To Where? »
22 Dec 2016 10:55
Nameless From Despair To Where? Ian Royal Big +1, I fundamentally object to teams in the second tier splashing £5m+ on a single player... it's bonkers.
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I do think Hogan is an excellent player but considering the club have never paid more than £3m for a player, it does concern me that we're prepared to triple that figure for a player with less than a season at Championship level under his belt.
Maybe I'm displaying a small time mentality but I don't care if the Chinese have bottomless pockets, this very rarely ends well.
Our transfer record was set in August 2007 .
In that 91/2 years how much has the world transfer record, the British transfer record, the Championship transfer record and the records of most clubs increased ?
While I am not a fan of spending for the sake of it, and much prefer to see us finding good players at bargain prices I think the issue of busting our record is a red herring when other clubs have been spending much more than us in recent years.
If we sign Hogan for this sort of money our overall spending on the team will still be pretty small. We aren't Derby, Villa or Newcastle who have spent huge amounts....
The world record fee had doubled in that period, although until United signed Pogba, the successive record fee was down to one club, the richest club in the world.
The British fee has nearly tripled in that time but, again, until the Pogba signing took it up a notch, it increased in incremental steps over that period.
The championship record has gone from £5.5m to £12m but has gone incrementally from 5 to 7 to 8 to 10 to 12 but it's all been by clubs fresh out of the Premiership (Middlesbrough, Blackburn, Fulham, Burnley, Newcastle, Villa) and apart from Andre Gray, none have been club record signings.
