Yep, we won't see many Prem to Prem transfers I wouldn't have thought, certainly not for first team players, unless there's a release clause of some sort.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

I think what a lot of posters have touched on is that with the TV money the "baseline" has risen. So a player worth 5m 5 years ago may be "worth" 10m now. Nothing to do with the improvement in the player, just with finances in the PL generally.

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it's getting silly. the standard of football in the prem these days isn't as high. seriously.

I mean...15 years ago Deeny would've been always a championship player. A team like Blackburn had a player like Duncan shearer who scored goals for fun in the chapionship and probably could've got 10 in the prem but that wouldn't had be deemed good enough. so they spent big and got alan shearer and Chris Sutton

OK that's a bad comparison as they went to the top end to win the prem
but the point is Deeney in my opinon is a prem goal scorer purely on the basis that the rest of the premises teams are not as good as they were some time back.

he's a good player who if was playing back in 93 94 would still only be in the championship

Edited by matthau (19 Jun 2016 2.47pm)

Edited by matthau (19 Jun 2016 2.48pm)

I read somewhere today £25M from Leicester Watford turned it down

To think that Deeney was once on loan at 'Halesowen Town' and is now the subject of a £25 Mill bid.

In fact Deeney was signed by Walsall from a non-league club (Cannot recall the name). He was signed by Richard Money who was affectionately known as "Dickie Dosh" !

Edited by Willo (19 Jun 2016 5.54pm)