Best bargains of recent years

klose

Kaka to milan for 8.5 mill from sao paulo anyone?

The steady European interest in Kaká culminated in his signing with Italian club AC Milan in 2003 for a fee of €8.5 million, described in retrospect as "peanuts" by club owner Silvio Berlusconi

Dempsey

Victor Wanyama for £900k
Fraser Forster for £2m

ciaran76

Tim Cahill to Everton for £1.5 million.
Darron Gibson for £1 million.

I am pie

ciaran76 wrote: »

Tim Cahill to Everton for £1.5 million.
Darron Gibson for £1 million.

What value do you think Gibson has now, how is that bargain?

ciaran76

I am pie wrote: »

What value do you think Gibson has now, how is that bargain?

I have no idea what his value would be now but his contribution to the team has been worth the 1 million.

Mr Whirly

I am pie wrote: »

What value do you think Gibson has now, how is that bargain?

At least double or triple I'd imagine.

I am pie

Mr Whirly wrote: »

At least double or triple I'd imagine.

Hardly represents one of the biggest bargains of previous season.

Mr Whirly

I am pie wrote: »

Hardly represents one of the biggest bargains of previous season.

Still a decent bargain in a recession though.

noodler

The criteria for what constitutes a bargain from the OP is a bit restrictive!

Smithwicks Man

noodler wrote: »

The criterion for what constitutes a bargain from the OP is a bit restrictive!

I try my best :pac:

Didn't want to leave it open to everything because anything could be considered a bargain

Chicarito, Suarez, Veira, Bergkamp, Anelka (to arsenal), seedorf, pirlo to milan, kaka to milan, el shaarawy to milan

these are all players who have been bought and then developed into much better players and greatly increased their value.

What I was trying to think of were players that were already established and worth say €20m but sold for €10-12m.

Transfers like that where a club gets a great deal on a good player because maybe his current club wanted rid of him (ala Balotelli who left City for €20m but you could argue he's worth twice that now after a few months)

Moneymaker

Keane - Notts Forrest to Man Utd
Ba - W Ham to Newcastle
Cole - Newcastle to Man Utd
Cantona - Leeds to Man Utd
Bergkamp - Inter to Arsenal
Makelele - Real Madrid to Chelsea
Nesta - Lazio to AC Milan
Dante - Mochengladbach to Bayern
Seedorf - Inter to AC

Plenty more I can't think of right now.

redzerdrog

Lucas Leiva for approx €7 mil especially when you compare it to Anderson who cost €30 mil at the time

Mr Whirly

redzerdrog wrote: »

Lucas Leiva for approx €7 mil especially when you compare it to Anderson who cost €30 mil at the time

You wouldn't get 7 for him now though.

Thecon21

If United bag Thiago for 18m, that will be an outstanding investment imo

Schism

Moneymaker wrote: »

Keane - Notts Forrest to Man Utd

I might be wrong but wasn't that a British transfer record at the time? A bargain in todays money I suppose!

rob316

Mr Whirly wrote: »

You wouldn't get 7 for him now though.

Really you wouldn't get €7 mill euro for Lucas? That's like £5 million. Some posts just leave me dumbfounded.

Think you meant Anderson, one of united worst ever buys. Fat, lazy, just no good enough.

Oranage2

Robbie Keane Liverpool to spurs - 12 million or something like that

Smithwicks Man

You'd get a lot more than €7m for Lucas Leiva now. Twice that in fact.

United paid €30m for Anderson? I'm sorry.. What?! :eek: Awful, awful transfer.


United signing Thiago would be a tremendous signing. He wants Bayern as his first choice but they don't want/need him. A must buy.

LiamoSail

Moneymaker wrote: »

Keane - Notts Forrest to Man Utd

Cole - Newcastle to Man Utd
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Both were british record transfers. You pay the most, you should get the best, that's value IMO, not a bargain

IvySlayer

massdebater wrote: »

Henry to Barcelona for 16 million was an absolute steal. Arguably, the best player in the world at the time.

In the same transfer window Darren Bent was signed for 16.5m by Tottenham :pac:

JustAddWater

Xavi6 wrote: »

I don't see how anything over 10 million can be considered a "bargain"

so 11m for messi or ronaldo wouldn't be a bargain!? lol

Smithwicks Man

JustAddWater wrote: »

so 11m for messi or ronaldo wouldn't be a bargain!? lol

I was thinking this when I saw it as well :pac:

I think Xavi6 may have been saying that anything over €10m wouldn't be a bargain for Thiago but maybe I'm wrong in saying that's what he meant ?

Who'd want to waste €11m on Messi anyway... :pac:

Blatter

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

United signing Thiago would be a tremendous signing. He wants Bayern as his first choice but they don't want/need him. A must buy.

Says who...?

double GG

Ronaldo to Real. £84 million.

Smithwicks Man

Blatter wrote: »

Says who...?

I could've swore I read a few weeks ago that talks had broken down with Tito and if he was going to leave, joining up with Guardiola was his 1st choice but I could very well be mistaken and can't find a link :rolleyes:

Blatter

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

I could've swore I read a few weeks ago that talks had broken down with Tito and if he was going to leave, joining up with Guardiola was his 1st choice but I could very well be mistaken and can't find a link :rolleyes:

Oh right, just interested cause I hadn't seen that anywhere.

Smithwicks Man

Blatter wrote: »

Oh right, just interested cause I hadn't seen that anywhere.

Tbh I'm annoyed I said that now because it annoys me when people randomly say stuff like that without being able to source it/back it up. Realistically there is no way I could know what his preference would be. Although I do think he will leave for Munich or United and if he's serious about wanting all the playing time, United makes more sense

Dr_Brian_Cocks

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Tbh I'm annoyed I said that now because it annoys me when people randomly say stuff like that without being able to source it/back it up. Realistically there is no way I could know what his preference would be. Although I do think he will leave for Munich or United and if he's serious about wanting all the playing time, United makes more sense

Fairly hard to source not seeing reports?

Smithwicks Man

Dr_Brian_Cocks wrote: »

Fairly hard to source not seeing reports?

:pac: .. It's more that there's that much rubbish online about it I couldn't be bothered weaving through it all. I'd imagine if it was true, it would have came up though

jmayo

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Falcao to Porto 3.5 million

Have to mention Porto when you see the margin they make on transfers.

If you look how much they pay for players and then move them on it is incredible business.
And they are bloody successful to boot.
Hell they even make money on managers.

Lawrence1895

Shinji Kagawa, when I came to Dortmund

GTR63

Van Der Sar to Utd, suprised no United fans said that yet.

Liam O

GTR63 wrote: »

Van Der Sar to Utd, suprised no United fans said that yet.

Corvo wrote: »

Edwin Van Der Sar (Fulham to Manchester United) - £2m

Established goalkeeper, great leader and organiser of the defensive line. Key part of United going on a serious winning streak from the time he joined.

Sure it was only the 11th post :P

IvySlayer

Lars1916 wrote: »

Shinji Kagawa, when I came to Dortmund

Ewwwwww

Lawrence1895

IvySlayer wrote: »

Ewwwwww

Must say, he is missed big time in Dortmund, even if we made some profit, when he went to Old Trafford

ricero

coutiniho from inter to liverpool for 8.5 million. so far hes been brilliant and can only get better.i say the inter board must of been smoking heseinbergs blue meth when they sanctioned that deal

Augmerson

Oranage2 wrote: »

Robbie Keane Liverpool to spurs - 12 million or something like that

Never given a proper chance at Liverpool, absolutely shambolic episode.

fullstop

Mr Whirly wrote: »

Seamus Coleman for £150,000.

It was £60,000 was it not?

Benteke has to be worth a shout. Cost about £7m, but single handedly kept Villa up last season and has to be worth at least double what he was bought for.

Professional Griefer

15 for Dembele. Cracking player.

NinjaTruncs

How far back is recent. I saw someone mention Bergkamp.

If we're going back that far.

Vieira and Overmars to Arsenal gotta be included

shrewdness

Even if he only had one year left on his contract, Juventus have got Tevez for a great price.

Smithwicks Man

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

How far back is recent. I saw someone mention Bergkamp.

If we're going back that far.

Vieira and Overmars to Arsenal gotta be included

I don't think Veira had proven himself to be worth much more than the peanuts he left Milan for but I suppose it does count as Arsenal surely wouldn't have expected to get him that cheap, even though Milan didn't want him. What a player he went on to become :eek:

Tevez to Juve has to be included for me. Worth a lot more than €12m as a player (although he is in his last year of contract)

Pinturicchio

Llorente, Tevez, Pirlo and Pogba for a combined total of €12m.

Pedro K

redzerdrog wrote: »

Lucas Leiva for approx €7 mil especially when you compare it to Anderson who cost €30 mil at the time

I could be wrong, but I thought the reported €30mil figure was for Anderson and Nani?

redzerdrog

Pedro K wrote: »

I could be wrong, but I thought the reported €30mil figure was for Anderson and Nani?

you are wrong

markc1184

Vidic to United for around £7m.

srfc19

fullstop wrote: »

It was £60,000 was it not?

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Think it was more like 60 thousand Euros for Coleman. We all knew he was going to be worth a lot more someday, pretty depressing how rode we got on the transfer fee.

Johner

Ashley Cole to Chelsea.

£5million plus Gallas.

Cech £7m

SureYWouldntYa

Lampard to Chelsea.

£11 million at the time, but it proved to be a bargain over time

Xavi6

JustAddWater wrote: »

so 11m for messi or ronaldo wouldn't be a bargain!? lol

You would never get them for that price though so it's not a realistic example.

A "bargain" to me is someone who was undervalued by their club at the time of sale, and a player sold at 10 million doesn't really fit that as it's a hefty price.

As for Thiago, calling him a bargain before he kicks a ball in the league is a tad premature. If he turns out to be a disaster, fails to settle etc, what will he be then? Hold fire on that one til next summer at least.