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Schmeichel signed in 91 so how is he the biggest bargain in pl history?

The Utd fan is beyond sense with his bias

Yeah it’s unbelievable but completely predictable

Well they were both bargains

Oh Yh fax in fact this was a much bigger bargain

I agree. They are somehow equivalent if you say that Liverpool didn’t know they were getting a Ballon d’or level player for a few years Lol . But Mahrez is a bargain

Wasn’t bought in the prem though I think that’s why

@@archiesmith1674 yes yes! You’re right! Mea culpa! Thanks for correcting me

Patrick viera 3.5 mill. What a player

Behave yourself 😂

@@Dony1878what’s wrong

@@Dony1878he’s not wromg

​@DonyTwyer bang your head against the wall, mate

@@Dony1878 having on of the best midfielders at the time and selling him for 14x of what you payed for him isnt a bargain in your eyes?????

They need rory back

Ronaldo for 18 million at the time wasn't a huge fee at all

@@jameskadar6555 for an 18 year old nobody had ever heard of ? It was a big fee

@@billymabum3514 He went on to win everything with Man United whilst becoming the best footballer on the planet in the 2008 season. Also, Manchester United made a huge profit after selling him.

@@sirishbaral3177 that’s not the conversation. Yes he turned out amazing , yes he won everything. But it was a huge fee for an unknown teenager . If we’re talking about profit then surely it’s coutinho

He compliments them a lot

i think you’re deluded i’ve seen him compliment them quite a lot

​@@LoyalFan9383he compliments them becouse he has standards but when answer is not so clear he becomes baised

@@IgnorantWeed that’s with everyone

As if Liverpool fans arent the same. It is what it is. Very few are completely unbiased in either camp when it comes to rival clubs.

Also sold kevin stewart to hull for 4m that summer, so essentially cost 4m.

They hate Robertson

They picked Irwin who was bought before the PL was formed which goes against the title

Sami hyypia 3 million

not better then mr consistent always 8/10 Danise irwin there are levels

Classic to this podcast. They’re morons

Exactly

just Man City things, tbh

That was because Neymar left Barca and Barca had 222mil to spend and they stupidly spent majority of it on Countiho lol

Title, singular mate, you won 1 prem 😂

@@SlicedBreadEd Until VVD & Ali retires, will be multiple when City get stripped aswell

@@JustinFC_FIFA still counts & wasn’t the same window

@@SlicedBreadEdwhat’s so funny

Not a bigger bargain than Cantona

@@lerouxbodenstein9640prob is

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@lerouxbodenstein9640Wtf yes he is? Jamie Vardy taking Leicester who were in the championship and promoting them to Premier League and winning the whole fucking league for the first time in their history was massive. Cantona you can say was the better footballer, but he was already doing well with Leeds and won the league them the season prior to joining Man Utd. Vardy was playing against farmers for Fleetwood town before joining Leicester. also 1m in 1992 is different from 1m in 2010’s.

7mil then, not expensive, but not a bargain. Should be mention, but not win

@@kurtsudheim825not a bargain?!?!?

@@danielpyne6718 was a great bargain, to the point where if Coleman wasn’t so cheap it should be Azpi in the team. Could even make a case for him anyways considering what he achieved and the fact he was always in the team for the majority of his time at the club. Only counter is he played CB/LB a lot.

He was genuinely the best player in the world in 2021 I still can’t believe he didn’t win it

It's not about Chelsea numptey, it's bargain, which is the Leicester transfer. & no he shouldn't have won the balloon door because defensive players rarely win it, & he was in the best 11, but player of the year nah, also, it's a single year bit 2 so makes your point incalid

He was. Sadly the bdor is a rigged award for pessi.

@@joubeid8311 he was genuinely nowhere near the best player in the world in 2021. The most casual football opinion you can have is that Kante or Jorginho desvered the ballon’dor in 2021. Kante was amazing in the semi finals and final of the UCL. Average in the league and had a poor euros. In what possible world was he the best player in the world?

Good shout. I think Leicester could even have 3 players in the team with Kante and Vardy as well

@@oufc90not could, they should

Cause he’s not a united player

they havent won anything

Liverpool signed Sterling for about £3million or something as well, Fabregas signed for Arsenal for free when he was 16.

Not to mention Estupinan.

@@ari29 they were talking about bargains, not what they have won,you can sell either for near to 100M, so pretty good deals all round

@@celticbarry9877 for 500 k mate

Swansea played some quality football back then too

@@samburnscomposer Agree

@@martinjasper7650 Also, one of the greatest midfielders ever that doesn't get talked about enough, everyone should research into Michael Laudrup's career as a player. Absolute baller.

What’s wrong

​@@LoyalFan9383 all they want to talk about (especially mckola) is united and city, embarassing analysis, you can almost see adam hurt whenever a liverpool player is mentioned

@@a_paalms2098 not really

@@LoyalFan9383 Nah it's clear, almost everyone he suggests is United

@@cowboyorangesoda8408 oh Yh true but in this case he’s right

It's ridiculous

At least with Rory he throws in other clubs

Azpilicueta is much better being £7m and helping the club win everything

but one is better so ssssh

​@@iainsteele5737 Cech better cope

he just said he’s biased.

140

Yep they also forgot Arsenal bought Martinelli for €6m couple years ago, now he is valued €120m.

Good but definitely better bargains

That’s boring though since he’s a free agent

that’s insane 😭

Yeah but that logic doesn't really work. It also downplays the bargain it was because you have to take into consideration the transfers at the time. By that reasoning Dean Saunders and Keown would of been nearly 80 million and Keane would of been like 120 million. It doesn't really work. The money wasn't the same then so what you need to compare is like for like. Dion Dublin, Kevin Gallagher, Gavin Peacock and names you wouldn't remember sold for around what Cantona was sold for.

@@yomo1690 I understand where you're coming from but I think you're just reinforcing the point that Cantona was indeed a bargain especially when players like Dublin and Peacock were sold for similar amounts in the same era. I didn't mention the 40-fold figure to downplay Cantona being a bargain but to highlight that when comparing players from different eras, the amount they were purchased for should not be so significant when stacked against each other. For example Robertson (£8mil) was dismissed for Irwin in the video because he was ONLY £625k in 1990, when in fact he would've been £25mil in todays market. Now I agree that Irwin, due to his success, was more of a bargain than Robertson but I wouldn't solely base it on transfer fees like the lads did in the video.

@@ArmChairKing95 I hear ya but it was a different market then, the money for transfer was sort of kept pretty steady and with relatively little fluctuation in prices. The pricing nowadays is crazy. I hear what you're saying though. And I agree. It's just some people in the comments just multiply it by 40 and then say see it's not a bargin because.....specifically in relation to a 90s player like Cantona. Which is just ignorance of youth. Not many players have had that much influence on a team and league (being a foreign player) but also culturally.

I think the most obvious way to work out the value of past transfers in today's money is to use the world record transfer fee at the time compared to today's. The Neymar transfer is a bit of an outlier because it's still hasn't been beat even though it was 6 years ago but the money Declan rice has just been sold for is pretty ridiculous. Anyway, Peter Schmeichel cost about 6 1/2 million using that scale and Cantona would cost 15.25 million.

@@grantmcphee5149 agreed the market is crazy now. But yeah 40-fold might be on the generous side but there should definitely be some sort of multiplier when comparing transfers over different eras. I like the idea of comparing record transfers over the years as it’s easily recorded. I think the best metric would be to look at the median transfer amount over the years (as Neymar type outliers skew the data somewhat) but that may be harder to identify! Anyway this is getting too “mathsy” - I think we all agree cantona was a bargain!

True, compare the careers of Irwin and Robertson, and it's not close. Cech is a good shout, could go either way.

@@lerouxbodenstein9640 I 100% agree, Irwin had a better career and is a better player. I’m just saying the fee is 625 isn’t as cheap as they made it out

625k in 1990 in real money strictly by comparing the rate of inflation would cost about 1.4 million today. The inflation comparison don't work. You have to look at who sold for what at the time.

@@yomo1690 not in real time, but in terms of the premier league inflation. Utd paid 30m for Rooney 20 years ago and today that would be 110m. That’s what I’m saying, so the 625k paid back then could be same as 50 m today. It’s not as big a bargain as they made it out.

@@rossdoonan6220 no that doesn't work. It doesn't work in money in terms of inflation ( 30 million in the bank in 2000 is not 110 million now) and have you seen some of the players sold for more than 625k back then? It's relative to the time.

That doesn't work though for the discussion. By that logic Dion Dublin would be 40 million now and Darren anderton would be 70 million. You have to compare like for like at the time. Dean Saunders and Kevin Gallagher sold for more than Cantona, think about that.

in 1999 that was a lot of money. The world record transfer fee was i believe 26mil at that time so 10mil was a lot

@@danielhackett7015 it was a lot before he kickd a ball. turnd out to be the biggest bargain of all time in the prem imo and im liverpool fan

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