[Albion] How much are today's centre backs worth...

[Stat Brother]

... and what else could you buy with that money?

 

[Bozza]

I'll open with:

Dunk - £25m
Duffy - £15m

Makes a decent return on the latter in a year or so.

I'd buy a BMW i8. I'm not really one for cars, but I was taken by Tony Bloom's i8, which I saw him driving to the Everton game along the A27. It was 12:30 so he was cutting it fine. Perhaps I'd treat him to a watch too.

 

[Stat Brother]

I'll open with:

Dunk - £25m
Duffy - £15m

Makes a decent return on the latter in a year or so.

I'd buy a BMW i8. I'm not really one for cars, but I was taken by Tony Bloom's i8, which I saw him driving to the Everton game along the A27. It was 12:30 so he was cutting it fine. Perhaps I'd treat him to a watch too.

All the centre backs, remembering the money on the table for Virgil Van thingy.
I have no idea who the 4th man is, in this equation.

 

[Giraffe]

Dunk £40m
Duffy £20m

There is stupid money out there for centre halfs right now and some of the big clubs are struggling defensively.

 

[AmexRuislip]

... and what else could you buy with that money?

I'll open with:

Dunk - £25m
Duffy - £15m

Makes a decent return on the latter in a year or so.

I'd buy a BMW i8. I'm not really one for cars, but I was taken by Tony Bloom's i8, which I saw him driving to the Everton game along the A27. It was 12:30 so he was cutting it fine. Perhaps I'd treat him to a watch too.

Dunk £40m
Duffy £20m

There is stupid money out there for centre halfs right now and some of the big clubs are struggling defensively.

If these are UK prices for the two, what would they be if being purchased from overseas?

Dunk €30
Duffy €25

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

All the centre backs, remembering the money on the table for Virgil Van thingy.
I have no idea who the 4th man is, in this equation.

May Yoshida, Japanese international, or Wesley Hoedt, Dutch international.

 

[clippedgull]

Dunk £30m (if called into the England squad then £40m)

Duffy £15m

 

[Stat Brother]

May Yoshida, Japanese international, or Wesley Hoedt, Dutch international.

Who Southampton paid £15m for.

So:-

£15,000,000
£50,000,000 est
£25,000,000 conservative est
£15,000,000 conservative est

Potentially that means we could be watching £105,000,000's worth of centre backs playing today.

It's going to be 8-8, but we could pay off the Marshall Islands national debt and have some pocket change.



If we could squeeze another £30m out of those estimates we could pay off Comoros national debt...


... no, me neither.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

£15m for Duffy? There's no way we would sell him for that, which means he's worth more. I would say maybe £20-25m. Dunk is probably worth £5m more than that

 

[GolfingGull]

Dunk £30m
Duffy £20m
Van Dyke £50m
Yoshiba £10m

Total £110 m

With that I'd buy Selhurst Park, turn it into flats and invest the remaining £109m

 

[LowKarate]

I reckon Dunk is worth £25m and for that you could buy an old chinese bowl: https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2017/brush-washer-sets-25m-auction-record-for-chinese-ceramics-at-sothebys/

I reckon Duffy is worth £15m and for that you could buy Paul Newman's Rolex.

Our Hunemeier is worth £5m (having not yet had as much Premier League game time to prove a higher value) and for this you could buy two Aston Martin Valkyries

 

[West Upper Seagull]

I would say the gap in value between Dunk & Duffy is smaller than some suggest. For me, minimum value in today’s market would be £30m for Dunk & £25m for Duffy.

I believe TB will definitely reject any offers made for them in January to try & protect our PL status (as unless someone wants to pay £100m for one of them then no offer is worth the same as staying up to his year) but who knows in the summer. If we find ourselves looking for at least 1 replacement then Unai Núñez from Athletico Bilbao is one to watch. He’s only 20 at the moment and I saw him play in last nights match vs Barcelona. He was exactly out of the same mould as Duffy & Dunk, throwing his body on the line and blocking attempts on goal, he’s big but also has pace. Gerry Armstrong in the commentary team was waxing lyrical about him.

 

[seagull_special]

Obviously they come as a package so no less than 50million by the end of the season it will be 70million

 

[Stat Brother]

Chaps remember there will be 4 centre backs on display today.

 

[Baldseagull]

Virgil is the one that has attracted a real world big money bid, I don't know what they are each worth, but it will be interesting to compare ours against theirs, I susupect Dunk is every bit as good as Virgil