He's so good that it's worth mentioning twice.
€24 million for Samuel Eto'o.
€24 million for Samuel Eto'o.
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Van Persie to Arsenal beats all those.
Seriously, what were Madrid thinking.
Went and became a Barca legend to rub salt in the wounds.
And what exactly have you lot won since he joined?Madrid could have taken up the buy back option I think but they didn't bother because they had 3 EU players already and 24.5m was a good deal. What a huge mistake that was from Perez and Madrid!
And what's that got to do with the price of fish?
Dani Alves - Bahia to Sevilla for €500k, sold to Barca six years and 250 appearances later for €41m.
That second photo makes the 'poor man's Barca' thing all the more amusing.
Monchi had a few others like Reyes, Ramos and Baptista.
Didier Drogba 6M (Guingamp to Marseille)
Frank Ribery free agent (Galatasaray to Marseille)
Mahamadou Diarra 3.9M (Vitesse to Lyon)
Floraint Malouda 4M (Guingamp to Lyon)
Paulo Ferreira 2M (Vitoria Setubal to Porto)
Luis Fabiano 3.5M (Sao Paulo to Porto)
Cissokho 0.3M (Vitoria Setubal to Porto)
Falcao 5.4M (River Plate to Porto)
Dimitar Berbatov 2.5M (CSKA to Lerverkusen)
Tranquillo Barnetta 0.2M (St Gallen to Leverkusen)
TBF Van Persie did win the 05 FA cup. Which is more than the entire Arsenal team bar Fabregas has won.
Tim Cahill £1.5m (Millwall to Everton 2004)
Luca Toni £9m (Palermo to Fiorentia 2005)
Mats Hummels Undisc. (Bayern to Dortmund circa 2008)
Luca Toni £9m (Palermo to Fiorentia 2005)
Mats Hummels Undisc. (Bayern to Dortmund circa 2008)
Fact is he wasn't a starter and there was a limit back then on how many foreigners you could register in your 25 man squad. Think it was like 2 or 3 players.
Hummels only transferred 2009. Before that he was on loan.
Tim Cahill is a good shout but those smaller teams don't have as good say in this since they ultimately don't have success on a world level.
What about Chicharito? In these days we absolutely robbed that Vergara idiot and his fecking team of cnuts.
Huntelaar went to Heerenveen, he spent some time on loan at De Graafshap while still at PSV.
Torres to Chelsea
Eto'o - Barcelona to Inter. Swopping him for Ibrahimovic alone would be a great business, let alone getting paid to do that.
Pique and Eto'o are excellent shouts.
At the time it looked like Chelsea got robbed. Funny how things turn out sometimes.
no it didnt.
No?! He might not be the best in the World, but he's been one of Chelsea's most important performers towards 3 Premier League titles, 2 League Cups, 3 FA Cups. He was a bargain.
Good shout, he had 3 terrific seasons with them.
Sell on price isn't everything, as I see a lot are using that as a yard stick, but after the 04-06 seasons he gave them and more, fair play.
Didn't we give them Gio Van Bronckhorst as a goodwill gesture?
Fabiano was a failure at Porto
I think Kolo Toure to Arsenal was pretty cheap and they managed to flog him for big money. Porto and Sevilla have bought excellently for the last few years though
one of our best
jon obi mikel to chelsea for 12m
jon obi mikel to chelsea for 12m
Absolutely, I don't care how much money is or isn't made on a deal. I just mentioned it because Forlan gave Villarreal some superb seasons, their golden spell (along with Riquelme, granted) and -cherry on the cake- left them with a 900% profit in the process.
Eto'o Free! (player exchange plus 41 million to Inter)