Thoughts on the PL Transfer Market?
I wanted to know what everyone's thoughts are on how the transfer market in PL has evolved and how do you think it'll continue to evolve in the coming years.
What sparked this question is seeing the prices of players from mid table clubs.
Now while I'm happy that mid table clubs in PL no longer can be easily raided by the Big 6, as was the case. I still think a lot of these prices are simply unreasonable and what I think this'll result in is:
- players that sign up for mid table clubs will either include a reasonable release clause in their contract like Dean Huijsen did with Bournemouth (50m) and Cunha did with Wolves (62.5m)
- or they'll run down their contracts and become free agents
- or the worst of all, push for a move to their desired clubs.
To add more context here's current reported prices for a few of the players:
- Elliot Anderson = £105M
- Sandro Tonali = £100M
- Adam Wharton = £100M
- Mateus Fernandes = £85M
- Alex Scott = £80M
- Lewis Hall = £70M
- Van Hecke = £70M
- Iliman Ndiaye = £70M
- Kroupi Jr. = £100M
- Baleba = £100M (From last year, Brighton rejected United's £75M bid because they valued him similarly to Caicedo)
Now a few of these are justified imo like Tonali and Wharton, both have been consistent enough in the league across seasons to warrant a 100m price tag like Rice and Caicedo did, but Forest valuing Anderson and Brighton valuing Baleba at similar prices after one good season is a bit unreasonable imo.
Because look at what happened to Baleba this season, his value has apparently dropped to be in the 50-60m range and still there's no real interest from any clubs this season when last year there was interest from not just United but other big clubs as well.
Again just wanted to have a healthy discussion on this.