Shitty death.
Some of these valuations are fucking ridiculous.
Firstly, these players will be coming from a Championship side freshly and ignominiously relegated from the Premier League having been fucking bounced most weeks. They have proved nothing but been part of that beatable team, and let's face it, no-one has been at outstanding levels this season. And furthermore, for our players to be transferred, there has to be a 'hole' they can be put into. How do you put any one of our players into a 'hole' which looks like improvement? Put it this way. Would you bid for any of our players?
Berge. Over £20m? How the fuck does that work? He's been injured since December, with what we are still led to believe is a hamstring which normally would take six to eight weeks at the most to be back running on at ten tops to be coming back as sub. He's nowhere near being back and has had extensive treatment, has he not? And, in his short spell at Bramall Lane, he's not exactly blown anyone away has he? So here's a spoon of reality. If we get £15m for him we'll have done well. Given our form, we'll be accepting £10m in instalments and add ons which will possibly never materialise as he'll be warming the bench or ship another injury at the next club which will keep his appearances down.
Egan. People quoting way above his real value. He's £8m at most, given he has also had time out and has been one of several defenders simply waltzed past with aplomb this season on the way to defeat. Although he is a strength in our back five, there still needs to be a 'requirement' for him to go. I can't see anywhere he'd fit in effectively and furthermore if an offer came in, can you see us resisting both his agent's ambitions and our own propensity to cave in early preventing us getting anything but beans for him?
Mousset. Fucking hell, people. I know he scored a whopping six goals last season, but try to see the difference between 'actual footballing value' and 'because he plays for United', eh? He has done NOWT this season but drift on late and fanny about never looking like scoring. That is, when he's not injured or facing the courts for his misdemeanours. Do you think other teams will look at him and think he'll suddenly come good? Do you think other teams will smile and think 'what the fuck were Sheffield United doing signing this shit benchwarmer from Eddie Howe's lot after they'd lost patience with him'? Ten million? If we release him mutually we'll have gained because we won't have to pay his fucking wages any more. He's shit. And everyone knows it.
Stevens. Three million? What? He's another who has peaked and gone south and next season will still struggle against teams who know how to go round and through him. He's past his best.
Ramsdale. People saying twenty million. Eh? For a good twenty matches this season he has been a fucking liability. It's strange how all the fuck ups of the past are quickly forgotten simply because he is now 'doing his job' and stopping shots. So we buy him for eighteen off a relegated team and he's relegated again (with some watching-through-fingers howlers) and we expect to profit from this? Again, as a Championship outfit? Get real, eh?
Others. Some have said we'd be able to sell Norwood and Fleck for tidy sums, despite them being part of the most abject midfield in the Premier League for a long time. George Baldock is mentioned at £10-12m. How? What has he done this season to warrant that price tag?
Finally, the two strikers, McBurnie and Brewster. These cost us well over thirty million, This season they have given us one goal between us for forty two appearances between them. If you believe they are worth any more than one tenth of that value then you are seriously deluded. An opposition manager won't look at their case in hand with regard value when as a job, they have to put the ball in the back of the net, and can't. They won't be next season's top scorers given they can't hit a cow's arse this season.
Please. Be realistic. Look at their real worth. Then you won't e quite so outraged when they get flogged for fuck all.
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