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Bad transfers this year by Sporting |
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Friday, 25 May 2012 14:32 |
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I’m sorry but the amount Sporting is getting for their players is a joke. From the last transfer window today, Sporting’s management has done a horrible disservice to their fans but dumping players for free or next to nothing transfers. I don’t care if people love or hate JP but he should be going for more then $3.6+some small perks. Hell rumors are that Roma were looking at buying Jardel from Benfica for 4 million, anything under 5million is for bench players or guys who haven’t proved themselves.
Sporting isn’t my club but I want to see Portuguese teams healthy and growing in terms of overall club standings in the world. Sporting spending record amounts last season to the point where they couldn’t afford to fix their grass/field worried me. It worried me that their spending in the summer was based on the hope of going to the CL group stage this upcoming season (not happening now). It worries me that they continue to average very small profit margins on their players. Given what’s happening in the European financial crises, it doesn’t take much for creditors to start knocking on peoples doors, the people most over leveraged will take the biggest it.
Sporting develops and has attracted amazing talent throughout the years but outside of a few cases they continue to miss the boat on working the transfer the market. I hope I’m over reacting as I would hate to see Sporting in serious financial problems. I hope in the case of Ricky and a few other key players that they sell for bigger amounts like Porto and Benfica keep doing for starting 11 players.
As for Ola John, great pick up. 9million is a good bit of money but considering that he on the Dutch national team at age 20 says a good bit about this player. From what I’ve seen he can be a big impact player. If we sell Nico for the 20-30million we’re looking at, that’s great business on our part. Ola John will have a 45million buyout. If he does well we can easily sell for over 20million. That’s good business and good margins. I expect the biggest financial winners this year will be Porto if they do sell a few of their key players which Hulk could be on that list. While it sucks to lose players, as long as our clubs double their returns it allows them to spend more on the transfer market to improve the overall quality of our clubs.
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