That's the question I'm asking. Is he the best though? A couple of years ago no one even knew he existed at City. Now he's supposedly worth over 100m. My argument is surely we can find someone with that level of talent before they cost the GDP of a small island?
My argument is yes he is the best right winger in the world right now. When put into context of his potential which hasn’t even been fulfilled yet, it’s hard to argue against it.
Yes you could argue just over 2 years ago not many knew about him. But likewise 3 years ago not many people knew much about Mbappe until he started ripping it up in the champions league for Monaco, especially against City.
Likewise just over 12 months ago, majority of people outside of Utd didn’t know who Greenwood was. What value would you put on him based on that measure? Young players will always appear out of the blue. The next thing you look at when a player bursts onto the scene is can they do it consistently. Sancho has now done it two seasons in a row with figures which are some of the best in Europe. He can’t do any more than that. Im not sure what else he needs to do in order to justify his value.
In this day and age, in the market we are in (ignoring the anomaly of covid) with all the money in football, I absolutely agree Sancho is worth the 120m euro investment. I still maintain that is a reasonable asking price by a club who actually doesn’t want to let him go.
The argument of whether any player is worth more than £50m is a seperate argument and not just relative to Sancho. The baseline for how much a player is worth is constantly changing. We can’t stick to prices we are used to like Van Nistelrooy for £25m, Rio for £30m, Rooney for £30m. The scale is always moving due to the money in the game. Our judgement of a players worth needs to adjust to it accordingly.