sullydnl
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He's a really good player and instantly improves us.
I just inherently worry about spending over £50m on anyone nowadays. Have we ever signed someone for over that amount who has been an unqualified success? Leny Yoro excluded as it's too early to tell with him.
This is pretty much how I feel.
Below are the top 20 players in the league so far this season for combined goals and assists (15+), and what they cost their current club as per Transfermarkt.
Salah - €42m
Isak - €70m
Haaland - €60m
Mbeumo - €6.5m
Palmer - €47m
Watkins - €34m
Wood - €17m
Murphy - €11.3m
Wissa - €10m
Cunha - €50m
Kluivert - €10.8m
Bruno - €65m
Diaz - €53m
Son - €30m
Joao Pedro - €34.2m
Mateta - €11m
Rogers - €9.4m
Saka - N/A
Elanga - €17.5m
Maddison - €46.3m
So of those 20 players, only 4 cost their clubs more than €50m.
At £62.5m (approx. €73m) Cunha would be more expensive than all of them. And would leave us with two of the three most expensive players on that list.
Which begs the question: do we really need to be buying a player like Cunha at the very top end of the market? It is a lot of money for what he offers, even accepting that what he offers is good.