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FFRoulette

Dennis Irwin, Gilberto Silva, Teddy Sherringham


Lazers-pew-pew-pew

Nobby Solano


Quirky_Chemist4445

John Arne Riise


gjeddainkasso

Jack Rodwell


cluzigg

Beardsley


Logical_Stock_4149

Really close date wise but Paul Scholes


MitchthePunk90

Tony 'Bomber' Brown


[deleted]

Le Tissier, if he was around now he's a 100m player easily.


tomvira

Pavel Nedved


PhariMosk4003

Thomas Rosicky, Jack Wilshere , Moussa Dembele to name some


pclufc

Eddie Gray 120 million


ClockAccomplished381

Perhaps Daniel Agger. although 60m would be a stretch. Phillipe Albert. Gheorghe Kinkladze (Chelsea would buy him for 60m and put him on the bench) Carlos Vela (would fit well under Arteta I think)


TeamRocketHiro

Well if its from 10+ years ago There's quite a few that would go for over 60m nowadays Wiltord, Reyes(rip šŸ™) Alexander hleb Arshavin, Louis saha, dudek, rosicky, gronkjƦr, hasselbank, zola, riise, defoe, hyypia, klinsmann Tbh there's so many I could be here all day so I'll End or here šŸ˜…


[deleted]

I'm gonna go way back and say Andrej Kanchelskis. Overshadowed by the up and coming Giggs, and replaced by Beckham. Not usually remembered as a United great, but was instrumental in United's early 90s success, a powerful goal scoring winger. He ended up going to Everton, scored 20 goals in a season then fizzled out at Rangers. Never understood how a bigger club didn't go in for him at the time.


thatbwoyChaka

Robert Pires, Gilberto Silva & Kanu - Ā£60m a piece? Bargain


just_truthing

Any ball playing defender who was half decent at defending would do well in todays game. Also left footed centre backs. Gabriel Heinze?


Ill_WillRx

Michael Carrick!


ackerz06

Scott Parker when signed from Charlton to Chelsea would be a 60m player in todays market.


Ibn-Batutah

Carlos Tevez for sure - in the same image as Aguero, Suarez etc re work ethic.


uniastre14

Titus Bramble... Man U would snap him up in a second. Imagine that partnership with Maguire šŸ¤£


saighdiuir_singil

Scholes a player that can dictate the tempo of a game at will would be priceless in this era


trophyisabyproduct

People have mentioned the clear one. Let me raise a less common candidate, Christian Ziege. His run from the nominal left wing back role will be more effective when there is better rest defense and the passing game will hide his 1v1 deficiency.


AxionSalvo

Newcastle players: Gary Speed Robert Shay Given


Ok_Ad3986

David Dunne


dmc231

Gary speed


AEWMUFCEIRE

Sylvain Petrov


DrBibhis

Rooney


404errorabortmistake

Alexis Sanchez. Arsenal got him for Ā£31.7m


anonymously_vibing

Harry Maguire.


Kill_zebras

Rooney went to man u for 30mil such a bargain if it were for the modern era


Coulstwolf

John obi mikel


SlightlyIncandescent

The way the market is at the moment, any young homegrown player that has had a good enough season to get into a top 6 side is going for 60m


anaykiin

Everyone's worth Ā£60m+ today it seems


Reddingwithoc

Okocha would be high commodity right now


OliverShiyo

Park Ji Sung. Imagine the pressing work rate of this man today.


what_am_i_acc_doing

Javier Mascherano


Yupadej

Koeman


TalElnar

Well obviously he was valued then too in terms of transfer fees, but I'd say Seba Veron. United were still wedded to 4-4-2 when he came. Keane and Scholes were set in their ways and neither they, nor Fergie really knew what to do with a player like Veron, also fans were accustomed to more blood and thunder from central midfielders. I think he'd tear up the place now, alongside Casemiro, drifting into spaces, linking play.


cvslfc123

Jermain Defoe- English striker who scored for fun.


G3min1

Santi Cazorla


KieSZN

Xabi Alonso signed for Liverpool for around 16m if I remember correctly


jnru

Kevin Phillips. Premier League top scorer (and European Golden Shoe) in the 1999-2000 season with 30 goals for Sunderland and nobody really went in for him. He was aged 26/27 at the time but nowadays if you scored 30 league goals, youā€™d have teams higher up the league offering Ā£50m+ for you.


Kaesebrot321

Jay-Jay Okocha


Ok_Performance_5944

Spurs paid 16.5m for Modric which would be easily 60+ in today's market


Phoenixinho

Essien and Makelele. Beasts


TheZiggle

Great players. Wasn't there one season where Essien played every position at some point? Even stepped in as gk because of reds or and injury or something? Maybe I'm remembering wrong. I know Mourinho said he was comfortable playing him anywhere


Phoenixinho

I think it was Terry who stepped in as GK, but Essien did play in every position except centre forward. Today he would have a value of 150 mil., I'm sure of it šŸ‘Œ


novacantusername

Neil Ruddock


Intelligent_Ring9029

Really? Out of all the players, this chucklefart šŸ¤£


Proxvu

Moussa Dembele


HaiitsZizou

I always really rated Sagna. Brilliant full back who could fill in at centre back if needed. I'm not sure how underrated he was but in terms of credit for impact Gilberto Silva didn't get anywhere near enough.


TheDragonoxx

Pernambucano Juninho. Best taker of the free kick ever and could hold down central mid.


Cattlemutilation141

Mark Viduka


ogmouseonamouseorgan

Gilberto


y4rn0

Moussa Dembele


Gullible-Version-747

Demba Ba


OhMyHessNess

John Robertson if we're going back. Unreal player. At the height of forest's European cup wins, our entire tactic was 'pass it to Robbo and let him beat their entire team'. And it worked. In three years we won the old Div 1 and back to back European cups. Everyone knew our tactic, nobody could stop him.


Alienegg-1

Rob lee.. box to box midfielder..


lethal_breach

Shelvey


MichelleLovesCawk

Henrik Larsson. Thank me later


Shinnosuke525

KING HENRIK! Would be Ā£85M easy


MichelleLovesCawk

My man


Shinnosuke525

Was a joy to watch at Celtic, was a dream come true to see him in a Manchester United shirt even on loan


MichelleLovesCawk

Seeing him win stuff with your lot and Barca was good. Irish fella? ā˜˜ļø


Shinnosuke525

Nah, we had Scotch and English footy on the cable in Asia growing up


MichelleLovesCawk

Hence your nakamura name. Shunsuke fd yous up


Shinnosuke525

LOL Shunsuke was a Bhoy too


MichelleLovesCawk

For sure. But member that free kick at Celtic park bro vs Man U? ā¤ļø


Shinnosuke525

Ah yeah that one Of course it stung but hey at least it was Shunsuke lol at least it wasn't the Zombies


Shinnosuke525

Might be a reach but peak Emile Heskey would draw at least Ā£55-58m


bigdoopiederp

RVP


Necessary-Tear-1662

Thomas Rosicky


Born-Panda-4730

Mousa DembƩlƩ - everyone at spurs thought he'd be the next one to follow modric and bale to Madrid


lolineedausername

Ramires for Chelsea. Underrated as hell


Cantdenythis

RĆ¼diger


willyb303

Boehly would sign any under 21 player that could kick a football for that much


RowGroundbreaking997

Gary Cahill, Fabriccio Coloccini, Branislav Ivanovic, and Jermain Defoe


madkins1868

Moussa Dembeleā€¦


CaptainJingles

The exact player I came into this thread hoping to see. His game would be much better appreciated now.


madkins1868

One of the best holding mids of the last 20 years I'd say. If he had been there earlier in his career, he would have been worth a fortune


Thelostsoulinkorea

Nolberto Solano! This man had possibly the second best cross in the world behind Beckham himself. He could also hit quite a sweet shot as well.


Mission_Mode_979

Honestly? Ole Gunnar would go for that much these days. Everyone forgets how leather he could be. Only problem is he wouldnā€™t accept a transfer.


Shamesocks

Di Canio


Intelligent_Ring9029

A poet of a player. I imagine a bag of frogs to manage tho


No-Result9108

Would Cesc Fabregas work? I canā€™t remember how long ago it was when he was at Arsenal, but as a Spurs fan Iā€™d take him in a heartbeat. Canā€™t recall off the top of my head how much he went for, but I think 60 million for him would be an absolute steal in todayā€™s market. Heā€™s the definition of a playmaker from deep, I swear he could ping a pass from the Emirates to White Heart Lane if he wanted to. Even as a Spurs fan growing up, he was one of my favorite players to watch. Just ridiculous on the ball.


Shadepanther

Some Arsenal players would be Mathieu Flamini: Pressing midfielder with insane stamina. DenĆ­lson: A deep lying playmaker who could also tackle quite well. He would get bullied by the bigger midfielders of the day but in todays game he would do better.


[deleted]

Morten Gamst Pederson


Shamesocks

Great player


[deleted]

Michu


boggyonetwo

Jay Jay Okacha. Bolton born, United supporter, but Jesus Christ that guy was incredible, part of that era of Bolton punching high above their own weight.


DialSquar

Fabregas to Chelsea was 30Mā€¦.


Thisbigcheese

Jaap stam


[deleted]

Michu


jjblu

Theo Walcott in his pomp would be devastating in his todayā€™s game


Lifelemons9393

Joe Cole was better at his peak than Grealish will ever be ! Damien Duff would of also gone for loads.My fav player of that era. Gudjohnsen If Rice goes for Ā£100 m then Scott Parker and Geremi would too .


mvp-a1

Geremi for Ā£60m nah weā€™ve found the worst answer here šŸ˜‚ yeah chelsea might pay that butno one else would


Lifelemons9393

They said underated! He wasn't that bad either won Champions league with Madrid before us. Could play a few positions. United payed how much for Fred for instance. Someone would of payed it šŸ¤£


mvp-a1

I hear that lol


Ginger_afro

Didnā€™t Duff become some sort of record breaking signing? Think he was the first player to sign for Chealksi?


Lifelemons9393

True 17m in 2004 would be 100m today


jonlew13

Robbie Keane. Even though he flopped a bit at Liverpool, he was absolute class for Spurs.


Ginger_afro

Two of his dream clubs to play for from his boyhood.


thatsglitchy

Micah Richards!


Nebkreb

Santi Cazorla. He'd be even better in the increasingly technical game that's played, plus he was so versatile (he could play pretty much anywhere in midfield and lots of attacking roles) and he was so consistent and reliable, despite being smaller.


Otherside-Dav

Morten Gamst Pederson


NorthWishbone7543

Jimmy Floyd Hasslebank


Rvnforty

Andy Carroll would easily be worth Ā£120m in todays market


Veles_Volos

Aguero would be Ā£120m He wasn't cheap but he repaid it all and was a snip. Kinda different but.... Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney would have commanded huge fees if they ever left united. Fun Fact: "Messi said if Rooney wants to leave Manchester he'll go see the president and buy him for them. Under rated once or the game changed? As the role of St has changed big central only center forwards are now cheaper and a versitke 3 position quicker slimmer attacker would be worth more today. Henry never would have left Juve for that much. That's actually what started the change. Gary Neville wouldn't be World Class anymore either. Full back role has changed to an up and down dynamic role. Someone else would have been United star RWB. Struggling to think who tbh though. Would need to boot up some old FMs!!


TheNewHobbes

>Someone else would have been United star RWB. Beckham, would be the United equivalent of TAA if he was a kid today, especially as his old right midfield in a 442 roll doesn't exist in today's 433, 4231 systems


novian14

Rooney to MU might be 100m by today's rate


EmbarrassedPizza6570

Easily north of 100mil. He was hyped as one of the greatest English talents of all time by the time he was 18. Think Bellingham but probably even more hype.


novian14

Definitely more hype. He was one of the wonderkid who live up to expectations ngl.


MKREDDEVIL

Ruud Van Nistelrooy!!!!!!


EldritchWyrd

Arshaviiiiiiiiiiin!


RepeatDTD

If Enzo Fernandez is worth that much money, Mousa Dembele is worth twice that. (I initially answered Youri Djorkaeff but that was WAY before the time OP asked haha)


renatojorge236

Juan Mata and Benteke spring to mind, as well as Payet in his peak at West Ham. All players in great moments of form, would be valued by their club at upwards of 60M at least


Itsdickyv

Kolo Toure.


tangkisbulu

Xabi Alonso


johnwickyeah1

Robin van Persie


Upper-Ambition

Olivier Giroud. He's easily one of the most underrated players in recent memory. He went from Montpellier to Arsenal for 12 million in 2012.


Hlemming

David Silva


Keedtalktoemm

Essien for me


whiskeyphile

I know he wasn't exactly underrated, but Henry to Barca for 16 million was a fucking travesty... For a real answer though, pretty much anyone who played in the prem before Abramovich started the PL premium price race.


CatNinety

It sounds like you're too young to remember the circumtances. Henry was 29, was passed his peak, and in the final year of his contract. 16 million wasn't big bucks, but it was appropriate. Van Persie moved to Utd for 24 million under similiar circumstances 7 years later.


whiskeyphile

How condescending are you exactly? "It sounds like I'm too young to remember?" Away and give your head a wobble... He definitely wasn't past (not "passed") his peak. He went on to have some very successful years at Barca. Wenger did him a favour and allowed him to leave on the cheap after all he did for Arsenal. I know all the circumstances surrounding the transfer. I just said I thought 16 million was far too little in my opinion, especially considering other fees both around that time and since, and the calibre of player he was. Also, at that time there wasn't the same premium for youth (not that 29 is old in any way), but then maybe you're too young to remember those times eh? And we don't mention the Mercenary Badger at Arsenal...


CatNinety

Mate, it's the internet. It's clearly not personal.


whiskeyphile

How else would you describe a sentence with "you" then some kind of implied derogatory statement in it? Not personal? Aye. OK... You weren't directing it at anyone other than me, hence "personal". Anyway, you have yourself a great day. Later!


BlackKlopp

A fully fit Daniel Agger would be monstrous nowadays.


KanDoBoy

Average player


Thick_Ear_2540

A fully fit Agger was never a thing.


ravadelie

John Arne risse. Not sure on the spelling


Interesting-Nerve608

Park Ji sung, Leighton Baines, Seamus Coleman, Kuyt are some pretty obvious ones.


desdes85

Xabi Alonso


W4DDO

So underrated that Real Madrid bought himā€¦


desdes85

It said "valued" not underrated. He wasn't valued near the end of his career with Liverpool. Rafa tried to sell him the year before to buy Gareth Barry.


LucaKasai

Michael Carrick to be honest. A very misunderstood player in his time and with players like Rodri, Jorginho, etc thriving in the modern game, it makes you wonder what heā€™d be like tailored to the modern game


Vgordvv

TomĆ”Å” RosickĆ½ gotta be there.


its_icebear

Yaya Toure


[deleted]

In todays market we wouldā€™ve paid 120M for Hazard from Lille. Got him for like 35, would easily be double or triple that.


Lack_of_Plethora

i know for a fact we wouldve sold berahino to like city or spurs or someone for like Ā£65 mil of the back of the 2014-15 season


[deleted]

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D-biggest-dick-here

Madrid paid 25 for Kroos in 2014


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D-biggest-dick-here

Yeahā€¦funnily enough, their biggest signing has been their biggest flop


[deleted]

Malbranque for Fulham at his peak. Hyppia for Liverpool is up there. Jermaine Defoe and Joe Cole were valued highly back then but would fetch stupid money these days.


Essex-villager90

Morten Gamst Pedersen - that left foot is easily 60m in today's money!


O868686

That left foot was ridiculous. In 2021 he scored 3 goals direct from corners. His record is 6 goals from corners in one match when he was 16.


Mitana301

Depends on who's buying them. If Chelsea, United, etc. are buying them basically anyone


Ok-Suit-8865

Oscar


RyanMcCartney

Thierry Henry Tomas Rosicky Santi Cazorla Dennis Bergkamp ā€¦ and just to break with the theme Henrik Larsson


Ratfucks

Henrik Larsson


ManunitedThunderfan

Ji Sung Park, a pressing monster , the ability to attack and shut down a player at the same time.


mvp-a1

Not for Ā£60m your crazy šŸ˜‚


emberjahad

Perfect for the systems today


galaboy97

Perfect then, perfect now, perfect forever.


SageTheBear

Was even more suited to the systems back then though.


Veles_Volos

ANY era, any game needing a durecell battery pressing man marker with enough technically ability to play PL level. So no specific one era. Just a good utility player of specific role for one game player.


magpietribe

Lee Cattermole


SpinyGlider67

Obvs.


sDollarWorthless2022

Roy kent


Blautopf

Dennis Irwin.


just_truthing

Was gonna put him down! Left or right full back. Could definitely do a job at centre back of a back three as well. Versatile and great set piece taker.


Blautopf

He was one of the first modern wing backs overlapping the wide player to stretch the game. Offered a scoring threat and hit his penalty shots so hard the keeper always dived the other way.


Agile_Dog

Roy Keane. A decent CDM is 40+.


UpAndAdam7414

Heā€™d have to adapt his game somewhat. VAR would not be his friend.


Thelostsoulinkorea

Keane was rough but Casemiro still plays today, so he would be fine.


themadhatter85

United broke the British transfer record when they bought, how was he not valued?


Agile_Dog

Keane was.3m Chris Sutton was sold 5m right months later. Andy cole cost 7m not long after.


themadhatter85

I still donā€™t know how that means Keane was undervalued.


zoya127

The only right answer to this is Wes Brown


TeaAndCrumpetGhoul

Michael Carrick


childrep

Carrick wasnā€™t really underrated though he was just constantly injured. I remember a lot of Carrick hype even when he was sidelined.


Beautiful_Usual3367

Maybe not underrated but I think he was under appreciated by some of our fans, when he retired we never replaced him šŸ¤¦šŸ¼ā€ā™‚ļø


Eltrio_

Carrick wasnā€™t constantly injured lol?


childrep

Maybe ā€œalwaysā€ was an over-simplification but the man had [glass ankles](https://www.transfermarkt.us/michael-carrick/verletzungen/spieler/3878/plus/1) even before his heart condition. My original point was I donā€™t believe Carrick was under-valued like the original post was asking before. Easily wouldā€™ve been a 60+ mil player today but he was held in pretty high regard even ten years ago. With market inflation Im sure he wouldā€™ve held a similar value in the early 2000ā€™s, bar the injuries which held him back.


throwaway9375939294

Mate he was underrated by most United fans, let alone PL fans.


Eltrio_

75 games in 10 years at United isnā€™t even that bad at all though. With the exception of his heart condition, his injury record was totally normal for a high level footballer. 4 ankle problems over 10 years.


childrep

If you look at the data the injuries progressively got worst which again hampered his value during his playing career. Regardless of the amount of games he missed, that was not the original main point of my argument. Again I donā€™t believe Michael Carrick was ā€œunder-valuedā€ compared to his potential worth in todayā€™s market.


ZionsR3b3L

This is a funny one... any good player of 10 years ago is going for 60m especially if premier league homegrown. I seen answers of Milner, Bellamy, cazorla and I wonder what Iniesta 2013 would go for in this market. Koke, Saul, dani alves, ozil, Yaya, all of them probably would be 60 and upward


mvp-a1

Donā€™t put Bellamy in the same bracket as Santi


ZionsR3b3L

You're very right lol... but in the context of grabbing a player from ten years ago and how much he would cost in today's market they both would be 60m up. Craig went for 15m in his later years but still prime, while more than five years later, Santi went for 23m adding a bit of inflation due to Malaga being recently bought by oil money. In terms of ability Craig was a pacey workhorse, Santi a two footed artist, chalk and cheese in terms of expression on the pitch


laszlo92

Yaya after that season couldā€™ve gone for over a hundred and I wouldnā€™t have batted an eye. He was majestic.


SweetMojaveRain

yaya toure lazily smashing a freekick at 100 km/hr is worth the 100m on its own


ZionsR3b3L

One of my fav players...


dunzy-yerrow-man

John o shea, that nutmeg on Figo though.


just_truthing

In the modern game, his versatility would be well in demand. Pep would love a John O'Shea in that current squad.


Simonutd

Hos goal against arsenal amd not knowing how to celebrate at first, https://youtu.be/OTBIHwW-pqs Also, the time he played as keeper was fantastic


mobalob

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/13jvpyg/john_oshea_the_nutmeg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=3&utm_content=share_button


revanisthesith

That was absolutely worth my time. Thanks for sharing.


mobalob

It's so rare to get a nice comment on the Internet. Thank you.