| £10 million For A Back Up Keeper 12:44 - Jun 10 with 1028 views | SaintNick |
Referring to saintsfan73's claim that we wont pay £10 million for a back up keeper was it only 4 years ago that buoyed up with a new owners first summer transfer window and the Virgil Van Dyk money still partly in the bank we went on a summer spending spree.
£7 million for Stuart Armstrong
£16 million for Moi Elyounoussi
£10 million for Angus Gunn
£18 million of Jannik Vestergaard
Over £50 million spent and lets be fair very little return from any of them other than Armstrong who was the cheapest.
If we add the money spent in 2017/18, £20 million for Carrillo, £19 million for Lemina, £15 million for Hoedt, £6 million for Bednarek adding another £60 million.
In the 13 months between July 2017 & August 2018 saw us spent around £115 million and get little return for it, more to the point we were stuck with deadwood and paying wages for players out on loan for most of that lot at some point.
At one point we were paying the bulk of the wages for 6 players out on loan totalling £17 million a year and we wonder why we have struggled .
Now only Elyounoussi remains from that deadwoood, at least we can move forward and perhaps paying £10 million again for a back up keeper will herald a new era or will it see past mistakes made. |  |
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| £10 million For A Back Up Keeper on 20:12 - Jun 10 with 866 views | 1teeminants |
I have read that he won’t be back up. He’ll be number 1 and he has been promised that position . |  |
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| £10 million For A Back Up Keeper on 22:54 - Jun 10 with 776 views | ElijahK |
Ok but all those players we bought were almost all from the sales of other players. As since Koeman joined (so 8 seasons ago), we’ve spent around £442mill on players (so roughly £55mill a season), but we’ve also sold £450mill worth of players (so just over £56mill a season). So overall over 8 seasons, we’ve made £8mill, which is no where near enough, and have never really had a spending spree seeing how we’ve still got money in the bank now. As whenever we spend big, we’ve almost always sold big as well which is the main reason why we’ve spent soo much, which ain’t exactly a spending spree.
And you talk about how we’ve spent loads on the poor players, but if you look at the most expensive players we’ve signed, yeah there’s a few that didn’t turn out well, but most turned out to be great. As that top 3 we’ve got all of Ings, Vestergaard and Mane. And those are easily 3 of the best, who we made a profit from selling, and you could probably chuck in more if we’d bought them all at the same time, as money for players has only gone up.
And the reason why we’ve done soo bad with all these signings is because of how “split up” the money became. As if we sold a player for like £30mill, when then bought 3 replacements for like £10mill each, which is why most ended up being soo poor. And with how quickly the value of players are going up, us saving all the money from previous transfers only basically go down in value, as if we sold Van Dijk in todays market, we’d have probably got £100mill for him. And it’s the exact same for money spent, as the decent players we did sign in the past we spent at least like £15/20mill on, which in todays market would probably be £30/40mill each. As I’m sure that if we just bought a replacement for £30mill then they’d of turned out soo much better than any of the 3 we’d bought had, and we’d of made a lot more money than we did selling them.
So maybe if we start investing decent amounts (so in todays world like £30mill) into these signings, then we might actually get a few more Van Dijk’s, mane’s, Ings’s etc, who we could sell loads for. Whilst spending small amounts on players (although youth could be an exception) then we just won’t get any great players, and will be lucky to stay up. As it’s a miracle alone that we’ve stayed in the prem with a negative net spend over the last 8 years. As if we’ve gotta sell players to work then fine, but it’s not always gonna work as well always get the sh*te players, and really if we buy one for £10mill and then sell them for £70mill, we should be buying that replacement for at least £30/40mill, not like £15mill, which is exactly why they’ve turned out soo poor and we’ve fallen soo far down the league. [Post edited 10 Jun 2022 22:58]
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| £10 million For A Back Up Keeper on 23:05 - Jun 10 with 756 views | 1885_SFC |
That good young Leeds keeper is only 22. I like him.
If you're good enough, you're old enough. |  |
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