The price tag does not link to world-class status
The transfer market is overinflated, and the rise in player prices is getting ridiculous. Players who have no pedigree are now worth more than £100 million, and this needs to stop, as it is creating spoiled players.
The first England player to achieve this feat was Grealish; he had a good season, and he was signed by Manchester City for £100 million, and then his trajectory dropped significantly as he became a waste of a footballer and turned to substance abuse.
Grealish became spoiled and thought he was a world-class player because of his British record fees. Jude Bellingham was also bought for £130 million from Dortmund even though he hadn’t won major trophies with Dortmund. But Jude has played well over the years and proved that he is a world-class player.
Declan Rice was bought from West Ham for over £100 million after winning the Conference League with West Ham, and it took him three years to win the Premier League with Arsenal and for fans to call him world-class, but he is not.
The latest is the transfer fees for Morgan Rogers and Elliott Anderson, two British players who are now world-class and don’t deserve the transfer fee because they have not achieved anything.
Both players have had a good season, but they should not be £100 million players; they should be £50-60 million players at best, even that is generous. Having a good season and playing in the World Cup shouldn’t guarantee these transfer fees. Even Anthony Gordon shouldn’t be worth £90 million, for a player who has been injured all last season and has barely scored 60 goals in his career.
These transfer fees are making English players spoiled.
English players are getting these transfer fees for a nation with players who haven’t won a major trophy in sixty years and had a mediocre performance at this year’s World Cup. Spanish players deserve these price tags and not English players.
Gordon, Rogers and Anderson are not world-class, and these transfer fees shouldn’t cloud our judgement about them as players. They are still professional footballers, and not world-class footballers, and we shouldn’t let the price tag fool us.
