Saints total player market value

[StratfordSaint]

Last time I looked at this several years ago, we were valued at around £93m. Wow have we shot up! However, just like getting higher that 7th in the league will be hard, to jump a place in this table will take a lot too…

 

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/startseite/wettbewerb/GB1

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

If we had bought a striker in Jan transfer window. We could of made 5th at least!

[Hatch]

also per those values

 

Shaw £18.5m

Chambers £10.5m

Lallana £19.3m

Lovren £13.2m

Rickie £3.5m

 

 

total £65m, what did we get ?

[Chris27687]

That seems to show that squad value and average age can indicate pretty accurately where a club will finish.

 

It seems to make a bit of a mockery of all the managers who come up from the championship and then start spouting off about having "experience" in the side - undoubtedly on the highest wages, rather than buying cheap talent from the championship or Europe. Or better yet training your own.

[hutch]

I see they also have a page for League 2. I was tempted, but decided to spend the money on a couple of new tyres for my wife's car instead.

[The9]

That seems to show that squad value and average age can indicate pretty accurately where a club will finish.

 

It seems to make a bit of a mockery of all the managers who come up from the championship and then start spouting off about having "experience" in the side - undoubtedly on the highest wages, rather than buying cheap talent from the championship or Europe. Or better yet training your own.

 

Maybe the player value calculation uses league position rather than the other way around?

 

Football's a meritocracy, the problem isn't that the best players make the most money, it's that the best players all sign for the only clubs that can afford to pay them, perpetuating a lack of true competition.

 

Not sure why it makes a mockery of that, when there's a proven link between experience and wages, and between wages and finishing position?

[The9]

I see they also have a page for League 2. I was tempted, but decided to spend the money on a couple of new tyres for my wife's car instead.

 

Nobody pays for transfers in L2.

 

Amused to see that in a division where everyone has at most 8 or 9 imports, Newport had 16 foreign players (i.e. 16 English players).

 

They've all left now except the keeper and 2 others now anyway.

Edited 16 June, 2015 by The9