Let’s GO! It’s cheaper now!
Most likely, discussing the price tag for players such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo is only a joke since they can pay for their transfer to any team in the world. We used to talk about sums in multiples of hundreds of millions, but now we are satisfied with only tens. Is this correct? What does the transfer value of players consist of, and is it conditional that Manchester United can take and buy Messi?
Answering the final question from the previous paragraph, let’s say right away that “Manchester United” can make an official request for the Argentine’s transfer. Still, it is unlikely that David Beckham will even read this email. As mentioned earlier, players at Leo and Cristiano’s level always decide where to go, and the buyer’s financial capabilities often allow the transfer to be carried out without problems.
In Messi’s case, this story was slightly spoiled by the situation with his transfer to PSG. His native Barcelona did not understand budget management, like a schoolboy whose parents gave him money for a math tutor. As a result, he bought two packs of cigarettes and failed the semester exam.
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Suppose we do not take such cases into the general statistics. In that case, no sports director in his right mind would think about buying Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Even if he has several billion euros on the shelf, the problem is that Ronaldo has no less on the shelf.
When approaching such players, you should approach them respectfully, taking off your shoes at the gate of the neighbor’s house and, just in case, cross yourself before starting a conversation. You don’t offer them money; you offer them projects, if you will, a “Perspective,” the same as the one asked by the French restaurant critic at the restaurant “Giusto” in the cartoon “Ratatouille.”
As in the same cartoon, one of the options when a player of this level can make a slightly eccentric decision can be motivated by nostalgia at the beginning of his career. Yes, the transfer of Leo to the conditional “Newells” or Ronaldo to “Sporting” will not seem utterly unreasonable because they feel a connection with this club from an early age. Cristiano’s return to United can also be placed in this category.
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Although the Portuguese came to the Red Devils’ camp not to finish playing, it is still funny to say that he alone could drag Manchester United to the top of the standings with Guardiola and Klopp still alive. But he came, showed what he could do, fulfilled the fans’ dream (which earned all the race participants), and drove away from the ungrateful Ten Haag, wiping his tears with wads of dollars.
His transfer to “Juventus” was accompanied by a transfer fee of 120 million euros, which the Turinese easily got out of their wide pants. Unfortunately, the time spent at Juve Ronaldo cannot be remembered as the most successful period in his career, although at the level of Italy, Krish produced a cosmic level (101 goals in 134 matches).
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It’s not funny, but in this situation, the Portuguese himself is to blame, who believed that “Juventus” would be able to fight for something more than another, so ordinary and even dull, Scudetto. The composition of the Turin team did not look unconditionally powerful at first, and the last successful international campaign ended with the fact that in the final of the 14/15 Champions League, the team gradually gave way in the final to Barcelona, where the trio of MSP was then the gods. Old Signora had good fighters at the time of the transfer of the Portuguese, but Dybala could be called a genius in full bloom among them, and that is if you were asked for it very much.
The potential of conditional PSG with Mbappé and Neymar looked very powerful even before the Argentine’s arrival, and after that, it skyrocketed. We will not discuss the results of this voyage, but we can only say that from the point of view of risk management, Leo has entered a more promising project, even if not entirely of his own free will.
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“We don’t choose – they choose us.” In the case of superstar transitions, this principle works strictly unilaterally. Many articles have already been written about why Messi and Ronaldo continued their journeys in America and Saudi Arabia, respectively, but if you would like to compare the prospects of the football gods in their current projects in our performance – write in the comments!
What is the current price for a football player?
Conditionally, the following parameters can be identified that affect the cost of the player:
- Name of the player (skill, skill, quality);
- The current shape of the player (injuries);
- Age and development prospects;
- Media weight;
- Last season’s performance level.
This is the largest base list that does not include the term a player must serve under the current contract and many other factors.
What is wrong with Messi? Why is it sold for such a penny?
Today, the Argentinian (if you believe the Transfermarkt website) is worth the same as Stanislav Lobotka, the central midfielder of “Napoli” at 29. Will anyone seriously say that any parameters can compare these players? There are several of them that Lobotka has better than Messi himself.
Firstly, Stanislav is only 29 years old, which is the peak of form for a football player, while Leo has long since exchanged the fourth dozen and will turn 37 at the end of June. Logically, in this case, he has few, if any, prospects for development. Also, judging by last season, Lobotka spent it playing in the Italian champion, being far from the last player there.
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Messi, in turn, had already finished playing (if you compare his performances at the World Cup). In the Champions League, the Parisians were eliminated to the 1/8, and the World Championship, although it was in winter, was still held in such distant 2022. Today, the Argentine is not at his peak form, although even this level is enough to “break the knees” of MLS defenders without much effort.
For 30 million today, you buy the Messi brand, his media resource, and football magic with an expiration date.
At 37, Ronaldo was worth the same, and he was still a player at Manchester United. He and Messi are the most expensive players in world football history at 37. For comparison, Zlatan Ibrahimovic cost a pitiful 3.5 million euros at 37.
Recently, Leo blurted out the following phrase: “Sometimes I wish I was 25 years old again, and my whole career was ahead of me.” Everyone would like to.
Right now, anyone reading this might feel a little cheated that we’ve concluded that Messi is just old, but I think for anyone who’s read the article up to this point, that argument isn’t enough to just say that the best football player in history is worth 30 million. Is it?
But now we, like Hollywood detectives, have to go back to the beginning of the article and remember that players at Messi and Ronaldo’s level make their own decisions about their future, and they decide to play. If Leo wanted, he could have returned to the Catalan capital to Xavi, grind out a few more years in Spain, thereby increasing his transfer value, participating in the Champions League, and continuing to progress. Still, he chose not to do so, opting for a boarding house called MLS.
Now, we can say that the value of Messi and Ronaldo depends not only on standard “mortal” opportunities but also on their desire. Each of them could strain and cost at least 80 million, or even all 100, telling in all interviews that they have everything to prove. They will play for another five years and score 100,500 goals each. Leo and Cristiano are choosing their worth these days, but I firmly believe they’ve earned it by making us happy for the last 20 years.
This text was prepared for you by Vladyslav Ivanov, the author of the usport.com.ua website.
See you soon. God willing, there will be new topics to discuss!
