What went wrong?Has a SINGLE 90m+ transfer ever even come close to being as justified as Ronaldo's? Which, by the way, was already seen as crazy absurd for a player at the time, even though he had just won the BdO, CL, PL and golden boot and was entering his prime at 24 years old. Now clubs are paying 100m+ for unproven talents less than 22yo. Is it all money laundering?
>>150574292>90m for (P)enaldoYeah, wtf was Perez thinking?
>>150574292Wolltechad is much better than pisstiano though
>>150574292Declan RiceCaicedoBale
>>150574292no paid transfer was ever justified
>>150574292
>>150575344this
>>150574292Mbrappe>b-butHe's already slaying it at Madrid
>>150575344This is complete bollocks. Waaaaaaaaaaaay more than 50% decrease in purchasing power since 2009
>>150575638Yeah, it's just illustrating the principle, without going overboard. Using even the most moderate of figures, 90m in 2009 ≠ 90m in 2025.
>>150575344135M gets you dogshit players nowadays, not the recent BdO winner and top 5 player of all time. You're proving his point.
>>150575638not the point of the pic being posted here is it, einstein?
>>150575703There's been like 5 (five..) 135m+ (EUR) players ever, and none at all in the last half decade up until last week.
>>150574292At least now the 90 mil gets you a white player.
Fiat money. Next question?
>>150576481fiat makes cars, they must make a lot of money
>>150575898Bellingham is Irish?
>>150574768/thread
>>150574292greatest player of all time moving to real madrid vs a player noone has ever heard of moving to bottom half newcastle
>>150574292Ronaldo to Juventus is literally the worst transfer in football history lmao.
Also teams are making more money than ever and they're worth more than ever. Liverpool is over 10 times more valuable than they were in 2007, of course that also means that the players cost more.
>>150574292>what is inflation90 mil then is equivalent to like 130 mil now
>>150574292i love how woltemessi's fee gets larger every time it's quoted. keep seething mongs.
>>150574292>>150574695it's called inflation>>150575344good post but it's even more than that, football has become a MUCH bigger business so the salaries have increased commensurate the real metric would be transfer price / total revenue of the entire leagueand i bet it's more than tripled since then
>>150576707Through his dad
>>150574292And can we see the wages respectively, please?
>>150579260i just checked (yes i know he went to leliga but i'm using the epl as a proxy) and EPL revenue went from 2.2B to 6.3B in 2024so this is really like a 32.8M transfer if you ignore inflation
>>150575898isak 145m jajajajjaja
>>150579661no refunds :^)
>>150574292now look up a 100k home in 2009 compared to a 100k home nowalmost as if printing shithloads of money has side effects
>>150577672look at this list>>150575898they are all failures
>>150583042nuclear truth nuke
>>150575703>Top 5 player of all timekek
what happened between then and now? 90 million was an insane ammount to pay for a player
>>150574768>chadhe looks retarded and malnourished
>>150575898Barca scammed HARD
>>150590183Inflation in general, the same amount of money doesn't get you the same quality as it did 10 or 20 years ago. That doesn't only apply to footballersAlso, there has been a huge influx of money in the leagues. New content, new sponsorship deals and strategies, new platforms and target demographics. Wages have skyrocketed as well. And it's primarily in the hands of a select few clubs. That's also why the leagues are so unbalanced now. In 2009, Bayern were considered the best team in Germany as well - but there were many other clubs who were said to have a realistic chance at winning the championship: Bremen, Hamburg, Schalke, Dortmund. But now, international competition and global bandwagoners cause such an imbalance that there's no way Bayern doesn't win and Dortmund, who stumbled into a good position right as this influx really took place, doesn't at least finish 4th. And it's not only a German issue, it applies to almost any league to a degree. These rich clubs can pay any price for players. Lots of clubs have generous owners, who obviously have their own agenda. Newcastle's owners are Saudi sheikhs, they have no ceiling
>>150600650most people who are crazy tall look goofy af
>>150601290there's plenty of footballers taller than him and they look perfectly normal
