From: bofh on
On 18 July, 18:32, italian...(a)gmail.com (SteveH) wrote:
> JAB <nocha...(a)nohope.com> wrote:
> > >> So yet another who believes that the question was is Berbatov worth more
> > >> than Tevez not was Berbatov worth £30mil ...
>
> > >> A simple question was he worth £30mil or not (hint - the answer is no)?
>
> > > Is any player worth £30m? (hint - the answer is no)
>
> > > Players are worth what the selling club are willing to accept and what
> > > the buying club are willing to pay.
>
> > > It's no more complex than that.
>
> > > Was Ronaldo worth £80m? - certainly not, but you'd have to be mad not to
> > > accept that. You'd also have to be completely insane to pay it, too.
>
> > Yer nice dodge Steve ... maybe you could try answering the question next
> > time?
>
> No dodge.
>
> Fergie believed he was worth £20+ million. Spurs believed he was worth
> £30+ million. They both agreed that £30m was 'about right'.
>
> Is he worth it? - how long is a piece of string.
>
> If you wanted a player like Berbatov, then you had to pay what the
> selling club were willing to accept.
>
> A player is worth what you're willing to pay for them, and each player
> has a different value to each club.
>
> Torres may be worth £50m to Man City - but to United he'd be worth less
> than £20m.

I bet you he wouldnt ;)

So, Aqualinis price was fine then. Thanks SteveH

From: JAB on
On 19/07/2010 11:34 PM, Swerve wrote:
> All I know is that you are a Walt of the highest order, and therefore
> due nothing from me and other ex servicemen than utter disrespect and
> disgust. You are down there with Scoopex.
>
> For your information and education, there was no mention, not even
> indirectly, of him being a new "Cantona" comming out of Old Trafford.

I'm sure that lot's of Man. U fans would have liked him to be the new
Cantona but that was unlikely to ever happen as players like him don;t
come around very often.

> If anything he was bought as someone to perform a similar role that
> Sherringham provided.

Just not quite as good ah ... :-)
From: Swerve on
On 20 July, 06:27, JAB <nocha...(a)nohope.com> wrote:
> On 19/07/2010 11:34 PM, Swerve wrote:
>
> > All I know is that you are a Walt of the highest order, and therefore
> > due nothing from me and other ex servicemen than utter disrespect and
> > disgust.  You are down there with Scoopex.
>
> > For your information and education, there was no mention, not even
> > indirectly, of him being a new "Cantona" comming out of Old Trafford.
>
> I'm sure that lot's of Man. U fans would have liked him to be the new
> Cantona but that was unlikely to ever happen as players like him don;t
> come around very often.
>
> > If anything he was bought as someone to perform a similar role that
> > Sherringham provided.
>
> Just not quite as good ah ... :-)

Maybe not...so far....but time will tell. He has already delivered a
contribution that was a factor in winning our last league title.

How much did Chelsea spend to win that eh Jab?
From: JAB on
On 21/07/2010 1:30 AM, Swerve wrote:
>>> If anything he was bought as someone to perform a similar role that
>>> Sherringham provided.
>>
>> Just not quite as good ah ... :-)
>
> Maybe not...so far....but time will tell. He has already delivered a
> contribution that was a factor in winning our last league title.
>

Yes maybe he will turn out to be a player that was worth the �30mil
price tag but at the moment he's not ... how difficult is that to
understand.

> How much did Chelsea spend to win that eh Jab?

So Berbtov was worth the money because Chelsea spent money to win the
PL? I suppose it no worse than the other "answers" that have been given
in this thread ...