Inevitable reaction.
Robbie Savage, like the rest of us, is a bit puzzled by the exorbitant transfer fees being paid this summer. Neymar cost Paris Saint-Germain almost £200m, Kyle Walker joined Manchester City for £50m and Liverpool have rejected a bid worth £118m from Barcelona for Philippe Coutinho.
The idea of a transfer offer worth more than £100m, never mind rejecting it, would have been outlandish a few years ago.
https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_UK/status/898587444668506112
The sight of decent full-backs being sold for £50m, and a club rejecting a bid of over £100m for someone who arguably isn't even their best player, makes you wonder what great players of the past would be worth in the current market.
Diego Maradona cost Napoli £5m in 1984, Alan Shearer cost Newcastle United £15m in 1996 and Real Madrid paid £80m for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009. They were all record fees at the time, but how much would each cost in 2017? How much would Thierry Henry in his prime cost now? What fee could Roy Keane demand? Or Ryan Giggs? Or Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen before injuries took their toll?
The same probably can't be said of Robbie Savage. The former Wales midfielder cost Blackburn Rovers £3m when he left Birmingham City in 2005. In the current market, he would probably be worth... about £3m.
Robbie wasn't the most talented footballer to have graced the Premier League, but he managed to play a couple of hundred games in the top flight. In light of Liverpool rejecting Barcelona's bid for Coutinho, Savage asked his Twitter followers how much would he be worth in the current market.
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The consensus was that he wouldn't be worth a lot.
https://twitter.com/DonieHartney/status/898570471800700928
https://twitter.com/Football44too/status/898571118306615296
https://twitter.com/jezo08/status/898571905174777856
https://twitter.com/brakey7/status/898571603524583424
https://twitter.com/tom9022/status/898570515375325184
https://twitter.com/samvitty/status/898578522771517441
https://twitter.com/easy_g87/status/898633983772073984
https://twitter.com/IanButteryTCS/status/898584914139938822
https://twitter.com/JamesMcNair8/status/898576671770628096
https://twitter.com/JohnHay26780878/status/898574032295141376
https://twitter.com/ashyn17/status/898571785880436736
