Football 2012-2013

[strummer77]

with tim cahill going hes got to be one of the biggest bargains in the premier league era. Who else would you consider great bargains.

cantona 1.2m

Edited July 24, 2012 by strummer77

[kaosmark2]

Tiote £3.5m

Cabaye £4.6m

Ben Arfa £2m

Ba free

Santon £4m

It'd be pointless to try and go back further for us, we spend 15 years overpaying for players. Luque....

[eFestivals]

with tim cahill going hes got to be one of the biggest bargains in the premier league era. Who else would you consider great bargains.

yep .... bought for £1.5M, eight years of excellent service to Everton, and then sold on for £1M.

They probably don't ever get better than that.

[Benj]

yep .... bought for £1.5M, eight years of excellent service to Everton, and then sold on for £1M.

They probably don't ever get better than that.

[eFestivals]

Joleon Lescott 4 million, 3 years of excellent service then sold for 24 million was nice

Mikel Arteta bought for 2.5 million, 7 years of great service then sold for 10 million

...come close

For what he was bought for and who he was though, its hard to think beyond Cahill

I was more talking about players who aren't sold on for profit. If we're doing that then no one comes better than skippy.

For a player who is of big importance to that team, and a team uses until they've degraded too much to keep playing for that team, they don't come better than Cahill.

[jammy2211]

The current Fulham team is full of bargains atm imo.

Schwarzer - free

Hangeland - ~£1m

Dembele - ~£4m (We'll sell him for £10m+ next season I reckon)

Dempsey - ~£2.2m

On the other hand we blew £10m on Ruiz... albeit he might come good in the end. Maybe :/.

[Benj]

The current Fulham team is full of bargains atm imo.

Schwarzer - free

Hangeland - ~£1m

Dembele - ~£4m (We'll sell him for £10m+ next season I reckon)

Dempsey - ~£2.2m

On the other hand we blew £10m on Ruiz... albeit he might come good in the end. Maybe :/.

[thetime]

Yup, for every mega bargain and money maker like Ronaldo and Lescott, there's always plenty of eveners like Veron and Bilyaletdinov!

[eFestivals]

Questions over his performance led to an expletive laden tirade against the media by manager Sir Alex Ferguson in support of Verón: "He [Veron] is a fucking great player" were his parting words. "And you're all fucking idiots.".

says the fucking idiot who signed him, and who then got very very lucky because Sven was Roman's best friend at the time.

[thetime]

says the fucking idiot who signed him, and who then got very very lucky because Sven was Roman's best friend at the time.

[thetime]

I was more talking about players who aren't sold on for profit. If we're doing that then no one comes better than skippy.

For a player who is of big importance to that team, and a team uses until they've degraded too much to keep playing for that team, they don't come better than Cahill.

[The Nal]

schmeichel £505,000.

Edited July 25, 2012 by The Nal

[thetime]

Cantona. Hypia. RVP. Viera.

We're talking about players bought for fuck all who have been great right?

[thetime]

Cantona. Hypia. RVP. Viera.

[TheGayTent]

Bargain buys who have turned out great, not buys who have sold at huge profits though.

[thetime]

Billy Bonds.

Bought for 50 grand in 1967.

Retired 21 years and 793 games later.

There are no words that do him justice.

[eFestivals]

There are no words that do his beard justice.

[TheGayTent]

Just.missed out on the premier era though.

[eFestivals]

My apologies - I didn't realise top flight football in this country began with Rupert Murdoch and Sky TV.

If nothing else - even for someone older than you - it's hard to get a grip on how much of a bargain he might have been at £50k in 1967.

And, i'd guess, that puts him at around the price level of a £10M-£15M player nowadays - which is probably higher than anything that falls within the 'bargain' price bracket, even if he gave excellent service at great value to the club.

[TheGayTent]

Bearing in mind the first 50k player was a decade before Bonds joined WHU, the first 100k player six years before Bonds joined WHU, and the first 200k player the year after he joined, I still think he was terrific value before you take anything else into account.

Even if you believed it was today's equivalent of a £20m fee (which it isn't), £1m a year over the course of a career is peanuts.

[thetime]

My apologies - I didn't realise top flight football in this country began with Rupert Murdoch and Sky TV.

[TheGayTent]

But that was the question in the prem era, especially as not many on here knew football before the prem.

If were doing that pound for pound has to be Steve bull of wolves. £65,000(with another player) in 1986 and scoring 306 goals which pretty much saved them from oblivion.

Now that's importance.

[thetime]

Was it? Then my apologies - I'm a grumpy old fart.

Agree re Bull - although he takes all the plaudits and many forget the importance of Mutch & Dennison

[The Nal]

Kagawa just scored his first goal for Utd, after been "brilliantly" set up by.................... Bebe!!

[eFestivals]

Kagawa just scored his first goal for Utd, after been "brilliantly" set up by.................... Bebe!!

Downing was brilliant for Liverpool last summer too.