Ted Hughes wrote:Alex Sapphire wrote:Koscielny to Arsenal aged 24: 8.5m
Sakho to Liverpool aged 23: 15m
Varane to Real aged 18: <8m
These three ahead of our man in Deschamp's team.
That said I have no idea what players are worth, but like the doomster says, the market does. Just glad it's not my money.
Try to buy Verane now & see how much the asking price, It will be more than Mangala. The comparison should be with similar rated players.
If Mangala doesn't turn out better than Sakho, or any of Arsenal's centre backs, I agree it was too much.
this.
we are very much paying for potential with mangala, and he is rated much higher than any of those players when they were purchased. he's 23 and has a lot of the right attributes to be a quality centre back.
are we overpaying a bit? sure, but cb's are not cheap now because of how difficult they are to get. if it works out we could have one of the best combination of central defenders in the world.
last close season folks were concerned about overpaying for fernandinho. sometimes it's also the club you are dealing with, and perhaps also all of the 3rd party ownership issues with mangala as well.