Atletico worth 20m less than Torres alone, 6 times less than Atleti

by BarrileteCosmico Thu 01 May 2014, 23:44

https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/early-doors/atletico-entire-team-cost-20m-less-fernando-torres-112603689.html

Laughing

Atletico starting XI

Courtois - loan

Juanfran – €4m

Miranda – Free

Diego Godin - €8m

Filipe Luis – €10.5m

Mario Suarez – Free

Tiago – Free

Koke – Free

Arda Turan - €12m

Adrian – Free

Diego Costa – €1.83m (€1m transfer fee, €833,000 in agents fees)

Total: €36.33m (£29.82m)

Chelsea starting XI

Schwarzer - Free

Cole - £5m plus Williams Gallas (estimated total £18m)

Terry - Free

Cahill - £7m

Ivanovic - £9.7m

Azpilicueta - £7m

Ramires - £18.3m

Luiz - €25m plus Nemanja Matic (Total value €30m or £25.5m)

Willian - £32m

Hazard - £32m

Torres - £50m

Total cost: £186.5m

by Onyx Thu 01 May 2014, 23:55

That doesn't matter imo. Buying cheap players and succeeding isn't better than buying expensive players and succeeding. Teams have different transfer strategies. hmm

by Zealous Thu 01 May 2014, 23:58

Atleti should pay their taxes before talking about money.

by Gil Fri 02 May 2014, 00:38

Who cares? These stupid comparisons are as dry as the Michu or Dortmund season tickets ones.

by Doc Fri 02 May 2014, 00:41

Zealous wrote:Atleti should pay their taxes before talking about money.

Pretty much this. Also what MT wrote.

by BarrileteCosmico Fri 02 May 2014, 00:42

Zealous wrote:Atleti should pay their taxes before talking about money.

To be fair they are not the ones talking, its the press.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Fri 02 May 2014, 00:42

It does prove one thing though, instead of clubs backing crap managers with millions every year they might be wise to spend more of their budget on quality coaching.

Crazy i know, but who knows such outlandish thinking might catch on.

by Onyx Fri 02 May 2014, 00:54

Doubt anyone knew Simeone would turn out to be good. Most people probably just thought he'd be generic manager #101 who wouldn't lead Atletico beyond 3rd and would make the Europa league semi each year.

by BarrileteCosmico Fri 02 May 2014, 00:57

Pls people who followed his career knew he had trained 4 teams and took 2 of them to the championship.

by Donuts Fri 02 May 2014, 01:42

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:It does prove one thing though, instead of clubs backing crap managers with millions every year they might be wise to spend more of their budget on quality coaching.

Crazy i know, but who knows such outlandish thinking might catch on.

Bayern got Pep
Chelsea got Mourinho

both technically failed this year (in champions league) and are rated the top managers currently.