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Originally Posted by Critch
70mil for a 30 year old Casemiro is ridiculous too. Plus a huge salary til he's 35.
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When Manchester City bought Erling Haaland for roughly €60M, there and then the absolute maximum for any player to be this summer transfer window was set. No player in the world is worth more than him, or maybe Kylian Mbappe is on the same level.
Honestly, this is not another one of my complaints about Manchester City. When the biggest spender in the world buys the most promising striker in the world, then that that figure should be the absolute roof for everything that happens after that. It should have snowballed into all transfer fees getting lower, unintentionally it should have set the new standard of lowered insanity.
But it didn't.
Real Madrid spent €80M on a no-name defensive midfielder and managed to got €70M of that spending back from Manchester United for a defensive midfielder with no resell value.
Liverpool spent $75M on the top goal scorer from a second tier league.
Chelsea spent €65M on a no-name wingback.
And the list goes on and on...