Player Suggestion John Egan

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Everton paid £30 million for Keane, and whether you agree or not is irrelevant, but Egan is now a proven player at this level, plus his organisation skills, his timing and all round play puts him in a different league to most other central defenders. Upwards of £40 million would be a realistic valuation, that's how good he is, and I still see room for improvement so in another two years we'll see an even better player.
 
itsinyerblood said:
Everton paid £30 million for Keane, and whether you agree or not is irrelevant, but Egan is now a proven player at this level, plus his organisation skills, his timing and all round play puts him in a different league to most other central defenders. Upwards of £40 million would be a realistic valuation, that's how good he is, and I still see room for improvement so in another two years we'll see an even better player.
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Although I agree with most of that. Egan is 27 Keane was 23 when Everton bought him, 4 years is quite a big difference.
 
Ricky said:
That's probably right for now.

But some of these figures being thrown about are utter nonsense.
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I think, when people quote £40m they are talking about what it's worth to sell now. Because he's a 27 year old career lower league defender with less than 20 Premier league starts who's probably at the highest performance level he's going to £12-15m is fair. £20m with the Premier league daft fees tax
 
Luke1993 said:
Although I agree with most of that. Egan is 27 Keane was 23 when Everton bought him, 4 years is quite a big difference.
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If, and it's a big if, the sale of Egan became a reality, it would need to be on the basis of what he means to us. We have a superb defence, why do you think we've done so well? Egan's a quality player, and even at 27 he still has between 4-6 years if he looks after himself. With age comes experience, and for a player like Egan that only increases his ability to cope. Minimum £40 million currently, and to us he's an integral part of our success.
 
Prices are a complete and utter irrelevance.

If we are to keep our best players, wage ceilings will have to be reviewed. The alternative is to continue to lose our most prized assets. And not necessarily for equitable value 😒.

This is the significant price the club has to pay for its spectacular rise in the last 3 years.

UTB
 
For the second best central defender in England from a footballing side, you'd have to to be looking at 40 million plus as a bare minimum. If he was in his early 20s you'd have to double that. Any less and you may as well put a white flag above the Lane with the words 'here for a good time, not a long time' on it. Our fans are still stuck in the 1980s re the value of players.
 
Ricky said:
Just a point..... but if £20m and £30m are joke prices for Egan then we can absolutely forget having any chance of signing Holgate.
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Difference being Egan is a key man for us, Holgate is a fringe first teamer for them. Regardless of age, experience, versatility and ‘English tax’

Egan is worth to us what Keane was worth to Burnley, and funnily enough Everton paid 30m for him. Add some inflation, and of course the January premium you’re looking at £40m bare minimum

Holgate price could be anything really, depends if he pushes for a move to play some first team football
 
Serious question for those quoting prices in the £15-£20 million bracket.

Do you think Egan is half the player Maguire is?

I personally think he's more than that but even if you think he's half the player then £40 million is the price.
 
We have two very very very good central defenders. I’d say a 100mlllion partnership. If we can keep Egan and JackO and build from them over the next year or two we could be pushing for Europe.
 
Upton_Blade said:
Serious question for those quoting prices in the £15-£20 million bracket.

Do you think Egan is half the player Maguire is?

I personally think he's more than that but even if you think he's half the player then £40 million is the price.
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Maguire starred in a world cup and the team buying him were forced to pay that fee by the selling club holding all the cards and they were desperate
 
Niceguyeddie said:
Maguire starred in a world cup and the team buying him were forced to pay that fee by the selling club holding all the cards and they were desperate
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So other than Egan not 'starring' in the World Cup (and let's be honest England were lucky with the teams they had to play to get to the semi final), what's the difference?

Do we not also hold all the cards at the potential selling club? If anyone wants him they should also have to pay through the nose for him. Why should we upset our apple cart otherwise? United should only let any of our players go (those in the first team) for a daft amount of money.

We aren't in league 1 or the championship now. Egan is now an established PL player, and a very good one at that.
 
Weasel said:
So other than Egan not 'starring' in the World Cup (and let's be honest England were lucky with the teams they had to play to get to the semi final), what's the difference?

Do we not also hold all the cards at the potential selling club? If anyone wants him they should also have to pay through the nose for him. Why should we upset our apple cart otherwise? United should only let any of our players go (those in the first team) for a daft amount of money.

We aren't in league 1 or the championship now. Egan is now an established PL player, and a very good one at that.
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No club in the world is going to pay us 80 million for any of our players ,the club is only worth that
Egan is half a season into his first spell in the prem and is growing into it well but he has limitations
 

1. Has JE got a release clause ? If so , that's our max price if he'd like to go.
2. Agents & wages rule the roost these days - if we can't get anywhere near what the market will pay him in wages , we're not in a good position. Even in the absence of a release clause , do we want to hold a player to his contract when our success comes from a happy squad?
3. Who is available to replace him as our defensive lynchpin ?
4. The size of the transfer fee is not as important as the above points.
 
Niceguyeddie said:
No club in the world is going to pay us 80 million for any of our players ,the club is only worth that
Egan is half a season into his first spell in the prem and is growing into it well but he has limitations
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Not saying anyone will pay us £80m for Egan that would be ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous that any football tranfer is that amount, nevermind a centre half.

But the fact remains HM did get transferred for a world record fee for a defender and tbh, having watched a lot of him through his career, I don't think hes owt special either. I've actually seen United have a better centre half than what HM is now imo, in Paul McGrath.

He's a very lucky lad in that he is plying his trade now when 'proper' olf fashioned Centre halves have previously gone out of fashion in the game and there is a shortage of them knocking about. Egan is another who is a 'proper' centre half and if we do agree to sell him in future, we should do so at a real premium. I've already made my pitch as a valuation for him i.e. not less than £50m as far as I'm concerned.

And seriously, you think SUFC is only worth £80m? We spent over £40m on player transfers in the summer. Those players havent devalued, and that's not taking into account the squad already in place such as O'Connell, Egan, Ends, Baldock, Fleck, Norwood.... Bear in mind the club will also now get 2 seasons at least of PL parachute payments, then I think its safe to say that the club is worth considerably higher than £80m, not taking into account any property assets which should come back under that club umbrella this summer.
 
Weasel said:
Not saying anyone will pay us £80m for Egan that would be ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous that any football tranfer is that amount, nevermind a centre half.

But the fact remains HM did get transferred for a world record fee for a defender and tbh, having watched a lot of him through his career, I don't think hes owt special either.

He's a very lucky lad in that he is plying his trade now when 'proper' olf fashioned Centre halves have previously gone out of fashion in the game and there is a shortage of them knocking about. I've actually seen United have a better centre half than HM, in Paul McGrath. Egan is another who is a 'proper' centre half and if we do agree to sell him in future, we should do so at a real premium. I've already made my pitch as a valuation for him i.e. not less than £50m as far as I'm concerned.

And seriously, you think SUFC is only worth £80m? We spent over £40m on player transfers in the summer. Those players havent devalued, and that's not taking into account the squad already in place such as O'Connell, Egan, Ends, Baldock, Fleck, Norwood....
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The bid from the Americans was 80 in the championship 120 in the prem
The prince is paying 50 for the lot ,so its subjective
 
Carlton Blade said:
Seriously, I love Egan, he's a fantastic player. But realistically what do you think he's worth?
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No less than £30m.

Would any other Premier League club sell their best defender, in his prime and to a divisional rival, for any less than that? No chance.

£30m isn’t even ridiculous money to be asking for a Premier League player now. Especially one as important to us as Egan is.
 
JackSUFC said:
No less than £30m.

Would any other Premier League club sell their best defender, in his prime and to a divisional rival, for any less than that? No chance.

£30m isn’t even ridiculous money to be asking for a Premier League player now. Especially one as important to us as Egan is.
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Look what I wrote before. He's worth way too much to us to sell him and there's no price that suits both parties
 
Disagree. That's likely around his market value. Mings/Webster a few comparisons who were well into the 20 mills having not proven themselves in the Prem to the extent JE has.
 
Whatever people do or do not think.he's worth under wilder the progression to where we are has only been possible through wilder having money through player sales

People bandying about ridiculous valuations are just blustering at the end of the day wilder will do what's best for the club
 
Carlton Blade said:
Look what I wrote before. He's worth way too much to us to sell him and there's no price that suits both parties
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Carlton Blade said:
I know. I said he's worth way more to us. But he's not a £30m player stand alone
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But a player’s value is dictated by the selling club. He’s worth a lot to us, so in theory he is a £30m+ player surely?
 

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