| The 2000/01 team - if sold today 10:37 - Jul 12 with 1016 views | STYG |
What do you reckon they would each fetch if we'd just finished 5th in the Premier League by today's standards (if any one of them had decided to leave)?
Wright - £25m
Clapham - £20m
McGreal - £10m
Bramble - £50m
Venus - £5m
Hreidarsson - £20m
Wilnis - £10m
Holland - £40m
Wright - £25m
Magilton - £20m
Reuser - £25m
Scowcroft - £20m
Stewart - £60m
Johnson - £15m
Naylor - £10m
Armstrong - £20m
Now I am looking at it, it looks laughable. But then consider the ages of the players involved, having just finished 5th, what a club like Forest are spending (£16m on Nico Williams for example, £10m on Richards - who played a few games from Bayern after coming from Reading) and the above actually looks pretty reasonable.
Likewise, some of the £45m / £50m signings going on in the Premier League.
It seems insane. £20m for Armstrong! But then he got 7 goals in 15 starts in the Premier League FFS! At the age of 27, someone is paying £20m for him easy. [Post edited 12 Jul 2022 10:38]
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| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 10:56 - Jul 12 with 938 views | BondiBlue |
I'd go higher than that for armstrong, and mcgreal would have been a snip at 10 million. Surely more than 25 for plug? | |
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| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 10:59 - Jul 12 with 907 views | STYG |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 10:56 - Jul 12 by BondiBlue |
I'd go higher than that for armstrong, and mcgreal would have been a snip at 10 million. Surely more than 25 for plug? |
I did think of putting Wright higher but then when you see what Ramsdale went and Pope, I guess it's probably not far off. | | | |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:10 - Jul 12 with 858 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
I think a lot of those are over inflated.
7 goals in 15 starts is good, but you cant discount the minutes as sub, especially if some of his goals came as a sub.
Marcus Stewart was nearly 29 at that time.
Magilton was 32.
Reuser wasnt a guaranteed started from memory. |  |
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| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:28 - Jul 12 with 763 views | clive_baker |
There's no way anyone would be paying £60m for a pushing 30 year old Stewart who had 1 season in the Premier League. You can probably half most of those and they're still inflated. |  |
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| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:30 - Jul 12 with 757 views | STYG |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:10 - Jul 12 by Marshalls_Mullet |
I think a lot of those are over inflated.
7 goals in 15 starts is good, but you cant discount the minutes as sub, especially if some of his goals came as a sub.
Marcus Stewart was nearly 29 at that time.
Magilton was 32.
Reuser wasnt a guaranteed started from memory. |
Stewart was 28, so in his prime, proven at the level below, had just got 19 goals and almost won the golden boot.
I'd imagine there would be someone stupid enough to pay £50m - £60m for him on the basis that Stewart didn't rely on pace and could be seen as someone who might carry on that form for another 2-3 years at least.
Reuser not being a starter matters little. Look at some of the Premier League benchwarmers and what they are going for now. How much would Van Der Beek go for for example. | | | |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:37 - Jul 12 with 710 views | Wallingford_Boy |
£10m for Richard Naylor, LOLs. |  |
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| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:40 - Jul 12 with 677 views | STYG |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:37 - Jul 12 by Wallingford_Boy |
£10m for Richard Naylor, LOLs. |
Why's that amusing? He was 24/25 and scored 2 goals in 5 starts (8 as sub).
He played very well at times in that campaign.
Look at what other 3rd / 4th choice Premier League strikers of that age are going for and it's £20m - £25m.
He could also play centre half.
As ridiculous as it sounds, players that are far worse than he was on paper are going for £10m in the Championship.
It is laughable money, but certainly not out of keeping with the silly fees going on now. | | | |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:46 - Jul 12 with 657 views | jayessess |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:30 - Jul 12 by STYG |
Stewart was 28, so in his prime, proven at the level below, had just got 19 goals and almost won the golden boot.
I'd imagine there would be someone stupid enough to pay £50m - £60m for him on the basis that Stewart didn't rely on pace and could be seen as someone who might carry on that form for another 2-3 years at least.
Reuser not being a starter matters little. Look at some of the Premier League benchwarmers and what they are going for now. How much would Van Der Beek go for for example. |
Even now I don't think it's that common for players to fetch massive fees off the back of one good top division season after fairly journeyman careers. It's not like we were bowled over with interest from Premier League clubs when it came to selling some of them.
Where are the analogous signings here? £25m gets you Chris Wood (49 goals in 144 appearances across 5 PL seasons), £15m Matt Targett ( 142 PL appearances), £35m Yves Bissouma (6 very good seasons across Ligue 1 and the PL, off to a Big 6 club, only Richard Wright ever got interest from those quarters). |  |
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| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 13:03 - Jul 12 with 486 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| The 2000/01 team - if sold today on 11:46 - Jul 12 by jayessess |
Even now I don't think it's that common for players to fetch massive fees off the back of one good top division season after fairly journeyman careers. It's not like we were bowled over with interest from Premier League clubs when it came to selling some of them.
Where are the analogous signings here? £25m gets you Chris Wood (49 goals in 144 appearances across 5 PL seasons), £15m Matt Targett ( 142 PL appearances), £35m Yves Bissouma (6 very good seasons across Ligue 1 and the PL, off to a Big 6 club, only Richard Wright ever got interest from those quarters). |
Agreed.
Not forgetting Raheem Sterling at £45m.
Gabriel Jesus £45m.
No one would have been paying £60m for Stewie. | |
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