THE OUTRAGEOUS TRANSFER MARKET, HOW MUCH ANOMALY WILL THIS CREATE TO THE FOOTBALLING GAME?
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Harry Maguire is finally heading to Manchester United for a fee of 85 million pounds, for me I will say potential should be spotted and be bought but when potential is bought before spotted then there's an anomaly in the beautiful game of football. We all understand that the transfer market is going haywire. We now have endorsement deals from companies especially extra money from the viewership it is like every single endeavour by a football club brings about or generates money but the players have now become the real diamond to be hoarded off. When you pay 85 million pounds for a player who was worth 2 million pounds four years ago it speaks so much about the inflation and greed by this club owners. An example of a club that has brought about this stupendous demand in the English Premier League is Tottenham Hotspurs and when you look at their transfer fee on each of their players you will see release clause is like 200 million pounds on a player who can't even score up to five goals in a season it is really an insane mad world and Tottenham Hotspur were first of the many who has started this shenanigan.
Apart from the fact that this transfer fees hardly make players perform let's also look at the fact that player's agents are one of the reasons why we have so much at Rangers transfer fee in the market. Mino Riola has got to be one greedy fellow and 95% of the players he's representing including Paul Pogba have this outrageous fees and talk of the devil Paul Pogba went from Juventus to Manchester United for 89 million pounds and today I can barely tell you that he's worth close to 40 million pounds and most of these players who have some of the world highest record transfer fee I've hardly hate it in the respective clubs they've gone to except for the few exceptions Liverpool has bought last season Virgil van dijk to be included. However how is the club going to spend a record transfer fee and be hoping that the player gets to blend in? Switching from Ligue One or the La Liga to maybe an English club is not an easy transformation for any football player except for a few and most of the times when I see football players going for such transfer fee I seem to question the motive because it now seems as if clubs are trying to buy trophies and when you look back at a club like Manchester United Who heated such policy they eventually become the leading Club who spend such money for terrible players. A policy they hated under Alex Ferguson.
How about Nicholas Pepe for 72 million pounds? He's obviously a decent player who has got the potential for goals and I also sleep wanted to ask a question who remembered Michu in 2012? He was a player that lit up the English Premier League with his outstanding scoring abilities, finesse and panacea. I would say now after that one season wonder, Michu will go for 200 million pounds. Of course we no longer heard about this brilliant player after that only season because I think sometimes playing just more than one season or two season or even three to go for such a record fees because by then they will have been trusted and tested and the issue of transfer fee on them would not make them not deliver. Pepe For 72? Obviously no! 45 million? I'll say Yes!
The market is definitely crazy currently and from my end I will say some prayers will not be able to be priced anymore and some clubs we go bankrupt after buying some players and not reaping the dividends. We may not see this currently but I think football will not remain marketable forever.
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