Selling Lascelles

[toptoon]

On a survey on a website, I valued Mitro at 25 million, but the average the other people who voted thought he was was worth only 15 million.

[Jammy89]

I'd have Mitro at between £18 and £25 million but if he has a good World Cup it wouldn't surprise me if we demanded more (as is our right).

[tooslomofo]

We should be building a team around Lascelles he’s worth far more than £30M
(To us anyway) his organisation and voice are what made him captain.
He will only get better imho

[HughieG]

On a survey on a website, I valued Mitro at 25 million, but the average the other people who voted thought he was was worth only 15 million.

I would agree with your original assessment. We paid 13m for him!

[Jammy89]

I would agree with your original assessment. We paid 13m for him!

And that was a few years ago before bulging Sky money and him having a heavy scoring season.

[ghostrider]

As I've said before. A footballer is worth nothing in terms of monetary value until someone pays a price for him. Until money changes hands, every player is monetary worthless.

[ex_pat_magpie]

As I've said before. A footballer is worth nothing in terms of monetary value until someone pays a price for him. Until money changes hands, every player is monetary worthless.

Well as a start each and every one of them has to have a nominated value set against him for insurance purposes.

That would be based on what the club felt he would cost to replace in the event of a career threatening injury or how much it would cost the club in wages and other costs if he was to be out with a long term injury.

It's easy to assess a player who has just been bought for an agreed nominated price but assessment has to be made about players who have always been on the clubs books and never involved in transfer fees. Each and every one has a value.

[ghostrider]

Well as a start each and every one of them has to have a nominated value set against him for insurance purposes.

And what is paid to the insurance is floating money that serves no purpose to a player unless it is activated. The player still has no monetary value until something is paid for the player by a club, which means that the players value becomes realised by the selling club who hold the readies.
The buying club hold a monetary worthless player until they do the same thing.
Obviously just light musings and theoretical...but nonetheless pertinent in it's own way.

That would be based on what the club felt he would cost to replace in the event of a career threatening injury or how much it would cost the club in wages and other costs if he was to be out with a long term injury.

Any club can feel a player is worth one pound or 500 million pounds and has to take a chance on what to pay out to insurance companies based on what they think the player is worth or the cost of replacing that player....correct.....but all that means is, the insurance take a percentage payment based on hypothetical value proposed by the owning club.
That just means that the club pay fees for what could be, not what is, or will be.
The reality is, the player is still worthless in monetary terms.

It's easy to assess a player who has just been bought for an agreed nominated price but assessment has to be made about players who have always been on the clubs books and never involved in transfer fees. Each and every one has a value.

Same thing though.
If a player is bought then that players worth was only realised by the seller.
The buyer now has a worthless player, money wise, until they sell that player for a price...or injury dictates a payout of an agreed hypothetical sum between club and insurer.

It's not really an argument as such. It's basically playing on logics and ideals.

[pboromag]

Lascelles 20 mill bench warmer
Motto 15 mill
Even his own manager doesn't rate him as a perm striker

[Zippity]

Kevin Keegan was a canny perm striker, mind...