Quote Originally Posted by caytonmiller View Post
Surely the players you are mentioning were bought at the right price and invested in. A lot of those players were expensive to buy. Assombalonga was 1.1 million in 2013 and signed on a 4 year deal.
Tony over a million on a 4 year deal
Marriott 775k for a non league player on a 4 1/2 year deal.

We seem to always hear about the good deals, there's also players like Tyrone Bennett. Posh paid over a million for him and then shipped him to non league after 18 games.
Jch 1.25million
Sczmodics for 1.2m
Randell 1m
I've not seen the accounts of posh but I can imagine they pay a healthy wage to attract all these players
I think we've tried to follow the Peterborough policy with regards to signing Nombe. Accumulate to speculate in that it is more likely you will get 5-10 million for a player if you dish out a million to start with and tie him up on a 4 year deal rather than a couple of hundred grand on a 2 year deal. The ironic thing with Nombe is that the team isn't good enough in The Champ for him to showcase his talents. He might be a 20 goal a season man in League 1.