- Sep 20, 2005
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Our current 4 best performing players - Lloris, Eriksen, Kane and Chadli - were all bought for very reasonable (or zero) fees. Add to that our other homegrown or very cheap acquisitions who are first choice or nearly - Benteleb, Mason, Rose, Townsend - and our first choice 11 must be one of the cheapest acquired in the top half of the PL. Even Walker was quite cheap (9M for Walker + Naughton - who we just sold for 5M!)
Kane's great form has somewhat over-shadowed how great Chadli has been this season. If you consider that Chadli was the very cheapest of the -err- "Magnificent Seven" (costing 1/4 of what Lamela cost, even 2/5 of Paulinho), that was a truly great buy. And of course Kane was free. Even Eriksen was one of the cheaper buys of the splurge.
So perhaps Levy was right all along in not shoveling out huge fees for players with big reputations.
Lloris 11.8 M
Walker 9M - 5M
Fazio 8M
Verts 9M
Rose 1M
Bentaleb 0
Mason 0
Townsend 0
Eriksen 11M
Chadli 7M
Kane 0
51.8 M
The total cost of our first choice midfield and attack is 18M!
Kane's great form has somewhat over-shadowed how great Chadli has been this season. If you consider that Chadli was the very cheapest of the -err- "Magnificent Seven" (costing 1/4 of what Lamela cost, even 2/5 of Paulinho), that was a truly great buy. And of course Kane was free. Even Eriksen was one of the cheaper buys of the splurge.
So perhaps Levy was right all along in not shoveling out huge fees for players with big reputations.
Lloris 11.8 M
Walker 9M - 5M
Fazio 8M
Verts 9M
Rose 1M
Bentaleb 0
Mason 0
Townsend 0
Eriksen 11M
Chadli 7M
Kane 0
51.8 M
The total cost of our first choice midfield and attack is 18M!