An interesting article in the MEN yesterday (which may have already been posted), but the content and subsequent commentary by the readers afterwards had me thinking.
Now Ferguson must splash cash - Manchester Evening News
The author claims Fergie must now 'splash the cash' to prove to the fans we have the money we claim we do, this £100-odd million.
Just because it's there, do we need to systematically buy willy-nilly for the sake of it? It's clear to me we do need reinforcement in our goalkeeper, midfield and attacking areas so my opinion is yes, we do, but at what cost?
I would love Sneijder to join United, all this nonsense about him being 27 years old and not worth it. Ronaldo is a couple of years younger at the most and Real paid double for him, and they also paid considerably more than £40 million for Kaka who is almost 29 years old.
The comments seem to say we shouldn't pay £40 million (if that is what it would take to sign him by the way, it may be more it may be less) based on the fact we could have gotten him for around £14 million when Real were looking to offload him. This is a good point yet based on what? Not every player ends up at United who are being sold, even if we are linked with all of them. And we also paid considerably more for Berbatov three years after we could have signed him instead of Spurs.
Look at Rio Ferdinand; he moved to Leeds for £18 million and we signed him less than two years later for £30 million, yet I doubt there'd be many who wouldn't say we've had our money's worth. There was a lot of contention over Carrick, signing for £14-18 million (depending on reports), yet we won the league thrice on the bounce with a couple of league cups and the Champions League thrown in for good measure.
The point is, Ferguson knows the true value of a player and what they would bring to the team in order to win trophies, which therefore benefits the club as a business financially which is what the directors and owners care about. If Ferguson will pay £40 million for Sneijder, that's his call.
But I hope he does....
Now Ferguson must splash cash - Manchester Evening News
The author claims Fergie must now 'splash the cash' to prove to the fans we have the money we claim we do, this £100-odd million.
Just because it's there, do we need to systematically buy willy-nilly for the sake of it? It's clear to me we do need reinforcement in our goalkeeper, midfield and attacking areas so my opinion is yes, we do, but at what cost?
I would love Sneijder to join United, all this nonsense about him being 27 years old and not worth it. Ronaldo is a couple of years younger at the most and Real paid double for him, and they also paid considerably more than £40 million for Kaka who is almost 29 years old.
The comments seem to say we shouldn't pay £40 million (if that is what it would take to sign him by the way, it may be more it may be less) based on the fact we could have gotten him for around £14 million when Real were looking to offload him. This is a good point yet based on what? Not every player ends up at United who are being sold, even if we are linked with all of them. And we also paid considerably more for Berbatov three years after we could have signed him instead of Spurs.
Look at Rio Ferdinand; he moved to Leeds for £18 million and we signed him less than two years later for £30 million, yet I doubt there'd be many who wouldn't say we've had our money's worth. There was a lot of contention over Carrick, signing for £14-18 million (depending on reports), yet we won the league thrice on the bounce with a couple of league cups and the Champions League thrown in for good measure.
The point is, Ferguson knows the true value of a player and what they would bring to the team in order to win trophies, which therefore benefits the club as a business financially which is what the directors and owners care about. If Ferguson will pay £40 million for Sneijder, that's his call.
But I hope he does....
