Just been reading an article on the 10 most expensive signings Spurs have ever made.
It reads as follows:
10. David Bentley (£22million)
9. Vincent Janssen (£22.1million)
8. Darren Bent (£24.7million)
7. Serge Aurier (£25million)
6. Lucas Moura (£28.4million)
5. Heung-Min Son (£30million)
4. Erik Lamela (£30million)
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3. Roberto Soldado (£30million)
2. Moussa Sissoko (£35million)
1. Davinson Sanchez (£40million)
Criticism is often levelled at the club for some of its purchases, however I think some of these purchases are either proving the club right for signing them or show signs that they will be useful additions.
Bentley will only be remembered for his goal against Arsenal.
Janssen & Soldado, both likeable and worked hard but failed in the area the were brought in to improve, scoring!!
Bent was okay and at least did score in around 1 in 3 games on average.
Son is a huge success story
Lamela is showing once again what a good player he is
Aurier does have some questions over his reliability, however I think we can see he has ability but needs this to be channelled correctly.
Moura in my opinion is going to be a really great addition to the squad & is already showing glimpses of class.
Sissoko has had the "marmite" effect on Spurs fans. Had a great Euro 2016 for France, and clearly has attributes that the manager feels will help us. In the last few games, he has shown signs that he could go on and become a useful member of the squad.
Sanchez is I feel going to be a big star in the coming years, and at his age has done extremely well in the PL.
Now for something completely different: In 1961 we paid AC Milan £99,999 for one James Peter Greaves. Bill Nicholson did not want him to have to wear the tag of the first £100,000 footballer.
So what would £99,999 be worth today?????
A miserly £2,094,000
That's what Alex Sanchez gets from United a month in wages!
In reality players like Greaves, Best, Law, Charlton, Mackay, Moore etc would be costing well over £100m and in my opinion all are better players than people like Sanchez.
By the way I know there are other players we have bought and who have failed spectacularly at the club.
My comments are restricted to this article and our 10 most expensive signings. COYS
Transfer Fees Value in Reality
posted on 22/3/18
Neymar = 200m
Sanchez = 20% of the world record
posted on 22/3/18
Ronaldo = 17m
Ferdinand = 6m, 35% of the record
posted on 22/3/18
I think our success rate with new signings is roughly 50%, which is actually not bad.
Especially when we often manage to more or less get our money back on the flops.
posted on 22/3/18
Another way is to do it as a percentage of our revenue.
Found this....
https://thespursreport.wordpress.com/2016/07/30/tottenhams-most-expensive-signing-relative-to-revenue/
posted on 22/3/18
"As you can see, the most expensive, at the time, and by quite some margin, was Sergei Rebrov. His £11 million move from Dinamo Kiev was equivalent to nearly 23 percent of the club’s annual revenue that year.
Rebrov is followed by Les Ferdinand (19.4 percent) and Chris Armstrong (18 percent). In fourth is Lamela."
posted on 22/3/18
As for the hotspurhq article, it is really poor given that almost all of the transfer fees quote are wrong. It's like the author guessed (badly) every single one.
posted on 22/3/18
*quoted (me making a mistake in my comment criticizing sloppy writing )
posted on 22/3/18
comment by Brother (U20548)
posted 39 minutes ago
As for the hotspurhq article, it is really poor given that almost all of the transfer fees quote are wrong. It's like the author guessed (badly) every single one.
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My thoughts exactly. Not the OP’s fault, just poor from the bloke who made the article he got it from
posted on 22/3/18
Actually I should have picked the incorrect valuations up, but didn't
posted on 23/3/18
Aurier 22 Mil
Toljan 6 Mil (to Dortmund after Levy bowed out)
Is that right??
Did Levy miss out on an absolute bargain??
Anyone know if this is true and how it happened?