I wouldn’t class him as free, Juventus did pay a development fee. Otherwise, you could also look at the likes of Fabregas and Pique.
Best ever Free Transfer
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Why was Pogba a better transfer for Juve than Lewandowski for Bayern?
That's not what I'm saying... I'm asking if a tribunal fee counts as free?
I wouldn’t count Pogba or Fabregas. Youth players don’t count in my opinion.
The best free transfer of all time is Lewandowski, followed by Pirlo.
The best free transfer of all time is Lewandowski, followed by Pirlo.
Paul Scholes
Looking back it was a travesty we didn't make another CL final with the 99 team, Fergie went down the wrong route with trying to improve. Irwin wasn't properly replaced for another 5 years and buying Veron when we had Keane & Scholes was crazy. Should have bought a partner for RVN and Sol Campbell.
They could have tried, but there was 0% chance to sign Reus at this point. He was only 1 year into his contract and Dortmund never sold to Bayern if they had a choice. Götze was a release clause and Lewandowski for free.
Also Bayern still had Robbery.
Reus was their best player that season
Where do people rank Ballack?
Remember there was talk that United were in for him and been gutted he went to Chelsea but his time there coincided with a golden era for United. Scholes missed the end of 05/06 season through an eye injury and there was plenty of doubts about him coming back and whether we'd seen the best of him so in hindsight missing out on Ballack worked out very well for United.
People saying Pogba must never actually have watched Juve. He wasn't even the best player they got for free in that Juve team. Let alone the best of all time. Pirlo says hi.
For me it's probably Lewa, then Pirlo. Strong case for Henrik Larrson from celtic to barca though for third.
For me it's probably Lewa, then Pirlo. Strong case for Henrik Larrson from celtic to barca though for third.
Bruno Fernandes. Actual value is 200m and we paid only 55m euros.
It's not even free, Sporting paid us.
It's not even free, Sporting paid us.
Good point actually. Otherwise I think he wins it purely given the 90m fee Jove received a few years later.
They made 90m on him....who cares about watching them.
Man Utd made more on Ronaldo than Juventus did on Pogba, and Pogba wasn’t free - he was very very cheap, but not free.
Maybe football isn't the right sport for you if your classification of who's best is based on how much profit a club made.
Schalke getting Raul for free was something back in the day. Deserves a mention.
Cafú from Roma to AC Milan is a fair contender.
Pogba was good for Juve but no where in god’s green earth did he carry them to the CL Final. I don’t think he was even their top 3 key men in that season.
Love the hyperbolics in this place sometimes.
Hummels didn't change much in the Bayern-Dortmund dynamics. 2013-2016 when Hummels was at Dortmund, 2016-2019 when Hummels was at Bayern and 2019-Date with Hummels back at Dortmund. Nothing really changed
Hummels?
Sorry didnt realise the thread title and opening post asked which free transfer was best from a football ability perspective.
Oh look, it didnt.
Really? Thought we sold Ronaldo for 86m? Was that Stg? If so then the 12m Eur we paid for him still makes Pogba more profitable for Juve?
Maybe my figures are wrong.
we are sort of both right. But I didn’t explain very well. You would be right, if we just looked at transfer fees. But Pogba’s transfer was different to Ronaldo, as his agent took a massive fee from the money we paid.
Mino took a big chunk of the transfer fee from Juventus, in the region of £24m which he agreed when he took him to Juventus. This came out of the fee we paid Juventus.
As an aside, We then paid the agent a fee on top of this.
so Juventus made about £65.5m on him.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....om-transfer-to-manchester-united-say-juventus
we sold Ronaldo for £80m, bought him for about £12.25m, so our profit was £67.75m.
we actually made about £2.6m in addition due to Ronaldo’s to Juventus as compensation because we bought him as an 18 year old from Sporting.
Link.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.joe.co.uk/amp/sport/ronaldo-united-real-juventus-188156
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....om-transfer-to-manchester-united-say-juventus
there’s not a great deal in it, but we made more on Ronaldo, than Juventus did on Pogba.
Recency bias
As one of the biggest pricks on TV
Puskas it is.
Would they have sold him, if the contract wasn't running out? Where's the choice?
It doesn't need to. If you have any common sense it's implied. Since a players cost has no correlation with their footballing ability. Jesus wept.
Yeah when you takeaway the £80million pounds that left Madrid's accounts and went into United's, it pretty much was a free transfer for him. Solid business.
Fair enough, thanks.
Crazy to think what Ravioli made from that transfer.
Being paid the average income in the UK(30k) it would only take one 800 years to earn that 24m.....assuming the 30k was tax free of course. I'm sure Ravioli is domiciled in the Caymans.
Why I dont see anything unfair about that.
Yeah especially when the topic and thread title is about transfers/monetary value. Only an idiot would bring a transfer fee into this discussion.
Untwist you knickers dear.
What you on about
Has to be Lewandowski for me.
It was basically free if you discount the £80m...
Might as well list all good transfers in here too. Vidic, Evra, Ferdinand VDS etc all frees.