Pogba4Now
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ShiftyPowers;3151276 said:Vidic isn't age, the guy is younger than me.
And how many 50m+ transfers do you think happen in the world, Nady? Even assuming you mean Euros and not Pounds (which I'm not sure about) there have only been 8 ever (5 if you mean GBP). 4 have been by Real Madrid, and in the case of 3 others the club has regretted it immediately (Zlatan, Sheva, Torres). The other one was Buffon.
IMO spending over 30m Euros on a player isn't value for the money and instead of spending 50m GBP on one player who flops like Chelsea, you could drop 20m Euros on 3 different players. Once you get to around 25-30m you're dealing with a major international and there's not much need to go up to 50+++ because the ability won't be that much higher and the money is going to be essentially wasted. It also baffles me that United spend so much money on home grown players when A) they have the best stocked academy in England brimming with homegrown talent ready to break through (Cleverly, Welbeck, Pogba, Rafael, Fabio) and Foreign players are cheaper.
Ok 50 millions is exaggerated. But my point is that despite the Ronaldo money, we are not spending like we should. We are not spending as much as other clubs in the same tenure when it is clear that we need players in the middle. Part of it has to be Fergie's stubbornness as well though. He could have got Ozil for 13 millions or VDV for 10 millions for example.