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[roger_ramjet]

I still can't get my head around that! £15million WTF!!! Thats 25 Colin Todds

By my reckoning its nearly 86 Colin Todds at £175K each in an Assombolonga for £15M.

[Andy_Faber]

By my reckoning its nearly 86 Colin Todds at £175K each in an Assombolonga for £15M.

How ironic that we may see enough spent to buy 86 Colin Todds yet I doubt we'll ever see another

[Manofpride]

By my reckoning its nearly 86 Colin Todds at £175K each in an Assombolonga for £15M.

You're right Rog and you've made me feel like Victor Meldrew (I don't believe it! 86 Colin Todds) for some reason in my head I'd got that we'd paid £600,000 for Todd, I was a mile out.

[roger_ramjet]

And Neymar is 1,143 Colin Todds....

[ramAnag]

And Neymar is 1,143 Colin Todds....

Not that unreasonable Rog...after all, he is 68.

Seriously...what is £175,000 in 1971 equivalent to forty six years on? Totally agree that current fees - and wages - have become obscene but I bet there were just as many bemoaning the fact that 'Derby County have broken the transfer record for a defender' back in '71.
I reckon houses have gone up about about twenty fold in that time...wouldn't that make Toddy still only worth about £3.5m these days?
(It's maths...I always like to check.)

[Andy_Faber]

Not that unreasonable Rog...after all, he is 68.

Seriously...what is £175,000 in 1971 equivalent to forty six years on? Totally agree that current fees - and wages - have become obscene but I bet there were just as many bemoaning the fact that 'Derby County have broken the transfer record for a defender' back in '71.
I reckon houses have gone up about about twenty fold in that time...wouldn't that make Toddy still only worth about £3.5m these days?
(It's maths...I always like to check.)

It was a strange thing because Todd was bought the week Rolls-Royce went bust. Half the crowd round me in the paddock were 'Royces' (most of the others were off the busses and a real rabble), the sense I got was that things like the Todd purchase kept locals' spirits up

[roger_ramjet]

In 1971 when I started drinking (illegally) beer was about 20p a pint I think... now its maybe 4 quid (if you ignore Wetherspoons) in the same area. So twentyfold seems fair indication of inflation. Thus Colin Todd is about a quarter of an Assombalonga in current purchasing price terms and probably 4 times the player.

[ramAnag]

In 1971 when I started drinking (illegally) beer was about 20p a pint I think... now its maybe 4 quid (if you ignore Wetherspoons) in the same area. So twentyfold seems fair indication of inflation. Thus Colin Todd is about a quarter of an Assombalonga in current purchasing price terms and probably 4 times the player.

20p a pint!! My first (properly bought) one...also illegal...and also sometime in '71 cost twelve and a half pence! We avoided another pub where it was an astronomical 15p...mind you, that was in the North West...'Coronation Street land' and all that. Think my first gig...Deep Purple at Manchester Uni. in late 1970 cost ten shillings (Google it babies...alternative way of saying 50p).

[Manofpride]

20p a pint!! My first (properly bought) one...also illegal...and also sometime in '71 cost twelve and a half pence! We avoided another pub where it was an astronomical 15p...mind you, that was in the North West...'Coronation Street land' and all that. Think my first gig...Deep Purple at Manchester Uni. in late 1970 cost ten shillings (Google it babies...alternative way of saying 50p).

That's 480 Farthings!

[AdiSalisbury]

My cheapest pint, was £1.20 in a uni student bar. The uni have now replaced said bar, with a coffee bar. Sad times, EU culture has hit hard.

On subject though, what actually makes someone worth so much? It only takes one bad tackle to ruin a player. It seems like players value has increased 10 fold in 4 years, let alone 4 decades.