at the Board just in case someone attempts to misrepresent it as such.
Indeed I think the Board have handled the Darren Bent transfer very well insisting on a complete cash fee rather than a mixture of cash and cast offs from the Spurs treatment room.
How is it though that Torres, who has never played in the Prem, is worth £10 million more than Bent a proven Premiership goalscorer over two seasons in a poor side? Surely the Shevenko experience would make teams cautious about investing too heavily in Premiership unproven players?
Alternatively has the extra Sky money effectively doubled transfer fees overnight meaning that the Bent money won't go as far as we think it might?
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What people still seem to ignore these days is that when signing a player you have to look at the complete package, which includes wages.
The days of getting £1million in for a player, spending £500k on another and still having £500k left in the bank are long gone once various loyalty bonuses/signing on fees are taken into account.
I think that overall we seem to have stuck to our guns and have got ourselves a pretty good deal.
Look at the strikers they have signed on big money over the last few years - Cisse, Morientes, Crouch, Kuyt, Bellamy of that lot who has been truly successful and consistently scored goals? Bent has outscored the lot.
Torres is an established international player with a lot of Champions League experience. He would also attract interest from a number of Champions league clubs if he was available at the same valuation as Bent, something Darren sadly wasn't.
On another note, it disturbs me that Henry cited the departure of Dein as his reason for leaving. When pen pushers are deemed more important than football men, we live in worrying times. It is also odd that he has moved to a club where there is no David Dein either. Surely if DD was so important to Henry, he would have waited to see where he ends up?