To think the beautiful game started out as something so simple as rival villages kicking a pigskin across a field. If you’d had told them it would one day become an industry where nation states effectively fund transfers worth in excess of £100million, they’d have sent you to the nearest mad house.
Nonetheless, that is the era football now resides in; the age of corporate interest, global marking profiles and records broken in every transfer window without fail. Just when people thought Manchester United had dangerously overspent on Paul Pogba in 2016, PSG went out last summer and snapped up Kylian Mbappe and Neymar for even more ludicrous fees.
Indeed, the rate of inflation in the modern market shows worryingly little signs of relenting and former Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp believes we’re now in a situation where every footballer who can ‘lace their boots’ is effectively overpriced. That’s caused him to question how much a certain Manchester United legend would be worth in the present day…
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