The last reasonably priced Englishmen

18 July 2011

Over the preceding years the prices of englishmen have skyrocketed. With andy carroll becoming the most expensive ever englishmen, this took a whole new meaning of extortion.

Carroll's 35m, downing's 18.5, Ferdinands 29m, Lescott's 22m, Wright-Phillips' 21m, Carrick 18.6m and need i mention hargreaves 17m!

The question is, the english are so over-priced and often dont match the price with quality, who do you think is the last englishmen to completely justify a huge price tag?

Another good one to branch off on to is, which englishmen whose transfer fee has been 15m or more is

a) the closest to justifying the price

and

b) the furthest away to justifying the price?

comment by Arsene Wenger - Protecting mediocre players from being killed since 2005 (U6857)

posted on 18/7/11

Rooney to United

Cole to Chelsea was a great deal for them which strengthened them and only weakened us

Adam Johnson who has shown his talent but just hasnt been given a real chance

comment by wump (U5046)

posted on 18/7/11

Adam Johnson was really a steal by City. Would love city to give us Adam Johnson + 20m for Nasri.

comment by pearsonification (U5624)

posted on 18/7/11

Gary Hooper for celtic (£2.5million) last season?

Outscored £35 million Carroll the year before in the championship and had the best strike rate of any striker in britain last season.

Cole to Chelsea was a great signing as was Lampard for £11 million, both more than repaid their transfers.

comment by The return of click for free beer_Young? Downing? No thanks, make mine a Mata! (U3630)

posted on 18/7/11

Lampard-£11 million

And how much did Portsmouth pay for David James?

comment by striketeam07 - Free the real chelsea fans from their plastic chav horde (U7265)

posted on 18/7/11

Aaron Lennon £1m

comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)

posted on 18/7/11

2006: Cole from Arsenal to Chelsea for £5m + one stroppy Frenchman.

In hindsight, an absolute STEAL!

comment by Batmoanu™ - Giroud ist mein Liebhaber (U2725)

posted on 18/7/11

Smalling for £10M was a bargain IMO. Also the £30M spent on Rio was well worth it.