If Koulibaly costs 70 mil and Upamecano 60 mil, you’d go Koulibaly?
We are going to lost 70m transfer budget and give up 40m of selling profit, a total lost of 110m in 5 years just from this deal, in exchange for an extremely tiny marginal difference of football ability between a world class player and another world class player.
Although I find that they are both playing at the same level, I will respect your judgement on both players.
But even with the ability difference you mentioned, the difference for their ability difference is worth a maximum of £30m to me.
That means if Koulibaly is free now and Upamecano price will rise from £60m to £90m in 5 years, I will think it’s logical to take the deal. Or similarly, if Koulibaly is worth £30m now and Upamecano is performing very averagely which his selling price stays the same in 5 years. Then I will accept the deal.
But Koulibaly is highly unlikely to cost that little and Upamecano is highly unlikely to perform bad in the future as he is a world class prospect. So the most logical approach is to buy Upamecano even if there exist a difference in ability as you’ve mentioned.
Last edited: Dec 25, 2019