It is becoming slightly painful to sometimes read this forum.
Too many users are extremely not objective and are extremely overrating all of our players.
Most of our fans here think that:
-- all of our players are the best in the world and better than all other players
-- Alexis is worth at least 40-50
-- Bartra is the next big thing, he will be worth 30M in the future
-- Montoya is the next big thing, he will be worth as Dani Alves, surely
-- Ie is the next big thing, he will be worth 30-40M in the future
-- Adama is the next big thing, he will be worth 30-40M in the future, we just need to play him and that's it. Just like on Football manager, where not a single player EVER has flopped if he had skills and if you played/developed him
Reality is much different than that.
Our team is horrible in the last 2 Seasons, compared to our standards in the last 10 Seasons.
A lot of our players are very overrated, and overpaid and they don't worth nearly as much as our fans think.
And bids of 18 or 20 M for Alves only prove that.
Also, you are expecting too much from La Masia players. 1 out of 10 will turn into something.
Into something, not into a new Messi or Busi. Just "into something".
It could be into a Sergi Roberto or Montoya.
I don't want to offend anyone, but too often it feels like comments are from 15 year olds who still believe too much "in overhyped young players" and similar.
And who haven't read these stupid stories for the last 10-15-20 years, and who have never been dissapointed when it turns out in the future that 80% of talents don't turn into anything.
Again, you are living in a dreamland if you think that anyone will ever pay more than 25M for Alexis. (or even more than 22M).
Our fans are rating him at 40-50M, but apparently, the whole world rates him as a 18-22M player.
Why have we paid that much? Because we are idiots at most of the times and we always overpay players.
Don't expect that from others.