Lichfieldfox. Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 Just wondered what our squad cost to assemble. Most were on a free, a Bosman or 'unattached' with only McCarthy + Maybury (100k), Williams + Hume (500k) and Hammond/Fryatt (undisclosed) costing anything to buy. I make that a rough 2 million. I suppose that in part explains our current position in the league........you get what you pay for (unless its Adi Verybadbyee). Maybe Milan has worked this one out.
Bert Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 The squad is worth more than that. We could get £2million for Stearman, maybe Kisnorbo, (??) Hume would bring in £1 million at least. Fryatt could bring in around the same amount as well.
MC Prussian Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 I think this question has come up once before, and according to my sources, the roughly estimated value of the entire LCFC squad is in the region of 16 million EURO.
Lichfieldfox. Posted 5 January 2007 Author Posted 5 January 2007 The squad is worth more than that. We could get £2million for Stearman, maybe Kisnorbo, (??) Hume would bring in £1 million at least. Fryatt could bring in around the same amount as well. I was getting at how much it had cost to assemble the squad, not what people speculate its worth .i'd agree several of the squad members are worth well more than we paid for them
FrankieWorthoYaggedMyWife Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 If Josh Low is worth £100k then who knows????????????????????????
mancunianfox Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 I'd give them about the price of a first class stamp for our squad.
Thracian Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 Although the poster actually enquired as to what our squad cost to assemble I would probably argue that it has gone down in value this season. And that is extraordinary considering it is so young. Notwithstanding contract situations: McAuley, Porter and Logan would surely have added to their value, though not a great deal. Henderson and Hammond have possibly added a little. People who might have earned a valuation like Dodds, Sheehan, King, maybe even Gradel have not. Wesolowski, O'Grady, Fryatt, Stearman, Maybury, McCarthy would have gone down in value. Kisnorbo, Hughes, Williams and Hume would have stayed the same. The rest I would doubt are/were worth anything anyway. Academy players haven't got much closer to the first team because they've nowhere to naturally make further progress now the reserves are gone so, overall, I'd imagine the squad has lost perhaps a quarter of its summertime value, perhaps as much as £2.2/£2.5m, after taking into account the pluses. That, perhaps more than anything, emphasises our folly in not having a reserve team and not shedding the squad of unnecessary players. While you keep negative players in a squad who are either not worth anything anyway or who are depreciating you are also not developing people who are worth something or who can develop. Yes, it's a fine balance, but I cannot see we've done anything but move backwards on the field during the first half of this season.
Geo V Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 I dont think the squad cost more than about £1.5m to compile as Elvis was about £100 wasnt he and Fryatt wasnt even half a million?? The slightly positive thing at the club compared to Levein or even Adams reign IMO is that we have now got a few saleable assets. Hume - £750-1m Kisnorbo - £1-1.5m Fryatt - £500-750k Logan - £250-500k Stearman - £750-1.25m Hughes - £250-500k I know its not mega money but we would be going absolutely knowhere if we stuck to the old ways and got a trailer load of old donkey bosmans that wouldnt ever have a sell-on value.
mancunianfox Posted 5 January 2007 Posted 5 January 2007 Although the poster actually enquired as to what our squad cost to assemble I would probably argue that it has gone down in value this season. And that is extraordinary considering it is so young. Notwithstanding contract situations: McAuley, Porter and Logan would surely have added to their value, though not a great deal. Henderson and Hammond have possibly added a little. People who might have earned a valuation like Dodds, Sheehan, King, maybe even Gradel have not. Wesolowski, O'Grady, Fryatt, Stearman, Maybury, McCarthy would have gone down in value. Kisnorbo, Hughes, Williams and Hume would have stayed the same. The rest I would doubt are/were worth anything anyway. Academy players haven't got much closer to the first team because they've nowhere to naturally make further progress now the reserves are gone so, overall, I'd imagine the squad has lost perhaps a quarter of its summertime value, perhaps as much as £2.2/£2.5m, after taking into account the pluses. That, perhaps more than anything, emphasises our folly in not having a reserve team and not shedding the squad of unnecessary players. While you keep negative players in a squad who are either not worth anything anyway or who are depreciating you are also not developing people who are worth something or who can develop. Yes, it's a fine balance, but I cannot see we've done anything but move backwards on the field during the first half of this season. Pretty much spot on there. Would have to say that Porter's value has increased a lot this season. I know fans of several other clubs who have all been really impressed by him this season and considering he was not worth much last season he must have increased in value significantly, as has Conrad Logan.
kamikazi_watermelon Posted 6 January 2007 Posted 6 January 2007 i'll give you my dads seat alhambra with it's central locking broken for the entire leicester squad
DB11 Posted 6 January 2007 Posted 6 January 2007 I don't know about in "real" terms but I wouldn't even value it at the price of a season ticket, make that a normal ticket, make that a ticket on special offer.... for the kids. That makes it around £1?
Sly Posted 7 January 2007 Posted 7 January 2007 It depends who's buying the players. If it was Peter Taylor, then we're worth about £20 million. On a more realistic basis having a look at it. I say we have not playing assets that we could honestky value about £1 million. We overpaid for Hume/Fryatt. Neither of them are top end Championship strikers, never mind Premiership, so why pay through the nose for them. Stearman/Wesolowski are a bit hit and miss. I'd say both are worth less than they were last season. May be my personal opinion but I think Williams is our most valuable player and was well worth the £500k we paid for him. If our strikers were on his wave length when he was placing those through balls then we'd all be raving about him. Our strikers movement makes him look poor.
gilesyboy Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 It depends who's buying the players. If it was Peter Taylor, then we're worth about £20 million. On a more realistic basis having a look at it. I say we have not playing assets that we could honestky value about £1 million. We overpaid for Hume/Fryatt. Neither of them are top end Championship strikers, never mind Premiership, so why pay through the nose for them. Stearman/Wesolowski are a bit hit and miss. I'd say both are worth less than they were last season. May be my personal opinion but I think Williams is our most valuable player and was well worth the £500k we paid for him. If our strikers were on his wave length when he was placing those through balls then we'd all be raving about him. Our strikers movement makes him look poor. Can't say I fully agree on this point but your theories are sound, esp the one about Peter Taylor! I do think that Fryatt & Hume would command a larger fee than we paid simply because they're in the spotlight playing for us more so than at their old clubs and other teams can see the potential (which we as fans know is there) which they'd believe they can nurture and capitalise on moreso than us, which seeemless link brings me onto the development of players and allows me to merge your points with Thrac's ever critical meanderings of our current youth system. Of course he's right. It is astonishing how some of our brightest young prospects who we all thought we'd struggle to hold on to the the extent that some of us actually resigned ourselves to bids we'd HAVE to accept, have lost value and after half a season have actually diminished to such an extent that there are no bids/scouts/clubs sniffing around in the transfer window for anyone other than Kisnorbo. It is a little sad, and emphasises how developing your youth through a solid reserves system (sadly now defunct) not only improves results on the pitch and gets the team playing good, exciting, on-your-toes football, but also keeps the fans happy and actually ensures a finacially sound future for the club which is surely more important than a defensive, scrappy scoreless midweek point away to lower division champ sides now and again.
Sooper Steve's shin Posted 8 January 2007 Posted 8 January 2007 ... we would be going absolutely knowhere if we stuck to the old ways and got a trailer load of old donkey bosmans that wouldnt ever have a sell-on value. You mean like Portsmouth did a few seasons ago? Yeah, what good has it done them? Oh.
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.