Recent transfer fees

[lcfcsnow]

Let's look at this

Joe Allen is going for 15 million.

Scott Sinclair = 8 million, to Man City where he isn't good enough to get a game, whats the point?

Steven Fletcher has somehow attracted bids of 12 million, yet Wolves want 15 million.

Add wages on top of this, say around 40k a week you're looking at another 6 million on top of that, + signing on fees, agent fees etc. It's laughable.

I hope if we ever make the Premiership we don't buy such average footballers for stupendous prices. It makes it look like we got off lightly with 5 million for Matt Mills.

Personally I'd rather we have a squad full of foreigners who can actually play football unlike the very limited players I've just mentioned going for a potential £38 million. If my club is paying out that amount I'd want something special in return, not some johnny average. Why are clubs giving in to these ridiculous transfer fees? If we were actually a half decent footballing nation I could understand it more but we're not.

Everyone should have learnt by Andy Carroll last season.

[Jon the Hat]

On ther hand, if rules require that you have a certain number of domestic players, then this means that the smaller clubs will get a wodge of cash.

[lcfcsnow]

On ther hand, if rules require that you have a certain number of domestic players, then this means that the smaller clubs will get a wodge of cash.

That never seems to work when we're selling.

[MattyFromLE]

I think unfortunately this over inflated valuation of footballers will be footballs achilles heal. At some point it is going to break the beautiful game, and I think that for it to be fixed, football has to be "broken". What I mean is, we have already seen some clubs go bust, and others will follow suit - when/if people realise how dangerous this "throw money at it" mentality is, surely they will stop?

[Fox92]

Money has ruined, and will continue to ruin, our game... But you'll still get people that will throw money at clubs, like him at Manchester City.

[Adster]

Heard Wolves rejected a £9m bid from West Ham for Matt Jarvis. Crazy.

[Fox92]

Although 9million for Jarvis and 12million for Fletcher (both reported fees of course) is crazy money, where does the line draw? If Wolves are in a healty financial position (which they probably will be after relegation) and they see these players are essential to winning promotion back the the Premier League (and earning over 50million through this) then what's the point in selling (unless it's real crazy money)?

[Mark_w]

The biggest problem isn't that clubs like Man City are paying £8,000,000 on a player who isn't going to play all that often, the big problem is that clubs who simply can't afford it are going to start paying money they don't have on players, because the fees required to sign players are going to increase and so are wage demands. It is going to kill some football clubs if it keeps going on, which is why I think we need to cut the big earners, especially if they underperform for us.

[Dan]

The inflation of English players is ruining our league and national team, gradually.

It also fills them with stupid delusion, I literally can't see why any team buys English players nowadays.

[Corky]

You can get Allen for £15 million, Carroll for £35 million, Henderson for £20 million, plus Fletcher and and possibly Jarvis.

Then you look at how much Cabaye, Cisse, Tiote, Vorm, Hernandez cost and it's clear to see why teams go abroad for players.

[Milton Keynes Fox]

Sinclair hasn't even been approached yet i swear?