Question of the Week: How would you invest 50m?

Oh, we're just talking about Qatar now? I thought it was just in general for any national team.

Yeah, but Germany's situation is completly different to Qatar's. If you wanted to make Germany the best footballing nation in the world, you'd have to invest less money than if you wanted to do the same with Uzbekistan.

I never considered that, I thought all nations were exactly the same!

That's sort of what i meant when I opened up that question. You can't exactly fap over a transfer sum with players from an NT; hence the reason to think about other ways of investing besides spending 50 mil on geting a single star player/coach.

EDIT: Pep would probably like to take over Johann Cruyff's current job than coach Qatar.

Watching Madrid now, I just thought, how would you spend 50m to make that squad even better? I think the main thing is getting a worldclass right-back. Beyond that, there's not much to do other than maybe get a targetman to work a plan B and a good keeper to cover Casillas.

For RB, I'd say throw money at Bayern and see how much they'd take for Lahm. If that doesn't work, I'm not too sure on who they could get. I suppose Maicon? Dani Alves is out of the running, and I'm not sure who would be willing to go who would be available too. I think Sagna wouldn't be too expensive, although I mention him simply because I can't think of anyone else right now.

For keeper, **** me, I dunno. Palop is sitting at Sevilla's bench, why not getting to sit on Madrid? They don't need anyone excellent, but just someone to be reliable like Dudek was.

For ST, Llorente would be the obvious choice. Soldado would be good too, and not as expensive since Valencia gots no moneys. Adebayor wouldn’t be too expensive either, although his wages would be high. But he does know Madrid already. I’d personally love to see Madrid sign Ibra, even though he isn’t a targetman, he could definitely play as one for them.

I suppose they could also offer that money for Drogs and Bosingwa.

Palop reliable? He's error-prone as hell!

Palop was a hero for us for many years, but the last few seasons he was a huge liability in high-pressure matches, trying to make plays when he should have stayed in goal. I think he would be a disaster playing for Madrid, even if it was just a handful of matches.

Madrid don't need any of those players. I think their biggest need is a Center Back, so I'd say blow it on Hummels, who could be had for far less than 50m. My favorite young Right Back right now is Micah Richards, but who knows what City's deal is with selling first choice players. Other than that, I just don't know of many right backs that are world class; as much as I don't like Ramos, I don't know who would realistically be an upgrade except perhaps Maicon.

^Seriously? Their best move would be to get a great RB and move Ramos in the center. Ramos may seem like a great right back as he makes a lot of runs and tries to contribute in the attack, but he loses the ball a lot in critical spots.

I don't like Ramos at all, but start listing off the top right backs and who are they and how much better than Ramos are they? There's just not that much out there IMO, while Hummels is doing his best Ronald Koeman impression this season. Hummels is amazzzzzing.

Pepe, Ramos and Carvalho and Varane as backup at CB is pretty stacked. Micah Richards has definitely improved this year, but I wouldn't call him a young talent, and he's definitely not what Madrid should be getting.

His whole game is to just motor forward and hope for the best, and for that you might as well get Ramos. Doubt Richards will improve much, anyway.

I also recall Palop being good the last time I saw him, but if he's not anymore, then just get someone else, there's no lack of keepers in their 30s who would do a job in unimportant matches and during the occasional injury.

Van der Wiel would be good signing for Madrid, but they will end up investing those 50m (or even more) in Neymar.

Chelsea......... sell Mikel and Kalou for £15-20m the pair, add it to the 50, spend it all on Modric and Alvaro Pereira. Great players, also perfect to replace the aging stars of Lampard and Cole. With some smart bargaining there may even be cash left over to sign one of the youngsters Mandieta6 mentioned. Would love to bring in an English player as I dont want to be back to the old chelsea fielding two, one or no english players per game, but I honestly cant think of anyone who represents value.

The other option is Neymar. £50m should pull him and any club in the world would love to have him.

And for non English clubs - Tevez for £25m (plus probably another 10 just to get the mercenary bastard to sign up), absolutely world class striker and plenty of change.

Florentino is willing to pay around €66m for Neymar.

Thank God he reports directly to you, or else we wouldn't have this great, reliable inside information.

That's what Spanish (Madrid) media reports.

ShiftyPowers;3125524 said:

As for Bayern, to be honest there's not that much we need. Marco Reus would probably run 20m, and he would be a great winger backup to the oft injured Robbery. I think we need someone better behind Gomez than Peterson, and I'm having a hard time finding a realistic player for this spot, so I think it wouldn't be the worst move to throw a pile of money at Dortmund for Lucas Barrios who is proven in Germany; maybe 20m again would do. With the final 10 we need to replace Breno, so I'd go for Dante at Gladbach who's solid as a 3rd or 4th defender.

But honestly, all of those players would be backups, I really like our squad and wouldn't want to force anyone out of the first XI even if I had 50m to throw around. I don't mention Hummels because I think it's clear that he's just not going to come back

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Instead of paying $20m or so for Barrios to sit on the bench at Bayern I would use $40m to buy Gotze. That's if I was Bayern anyway.

For Dortmund, I'd spend $8m on Brek Shea, $10m on Jefferson Farfan or Andre Schurrle, $12m on Axel Witsel, and another $10m on a defender.