Qpr want 15m just turned down a 12m bid from Leicester for him. When I was growing up 15m got you alan shearer the best goal scorer england and the premiership have seen in.my lifetime now it gets ypu charlie austin!!!
Tbf QPR were ***** all season and he was still one of the top scorers in the league. But yeah I get what you mean with the pricing, it's just going to keep going up and up as well.
Yeah was just comparing it to the shearer sale who was a proven 25+ prem goals a season and top england striker. Not denying austin is good but his first season in prem. If shearer was around this day and age would be 40m+
Blackburn paid £3.6 million to Southampton for Shearer - a then British Transfer Record. Probably worth more back then than the £15million quoted for Austin in todays money.
This in part is why English football on a bigger scale is screwed, £15 mil for Charlie Austin or you could probably bring a kid the same age who scored 30 in a season for some club in Eastern Europe who is tagged as the next Robert Lewandowski or something in for £8 mil. Until British clubs stop pricing British players with such stupid numbers it'll forever impact on the national team and hinder the growth of players right down the chain.
I still remember when half a million got you an England international and one of the best players in Europe.
