A benchwarmer who played just 100 less minutes than the regular starter Khedira in league. Is Mascherano a neglected benchwarmer too, because he played less minutes than Lass in league ? Not even going to talk about the price. It's uber stupidity to argue that someone is not worth that amount of money only because he doesn't play due to coaching decisions.
MAscherano price of course is less than last summer because of playing little.. It is a part of player value, as current shape is..
Coaching decision or not, that does not count at all in the market.. What counts is that he was clearly not a starter, and had minimal experience this year in all madrid's important games..
Plus, this guy career graph line is falling every year..
He could have been better utilized in madrid, but he was constantly being underrated..
Lass value is easily 15 mil. Heavily depending on how many years he has on his contract/if he wants out or not.
it depends also on what price value system are you in. If you take liverpool's inflation ridiculous deals (like CArroll, and the recent one henderson for 20m !!!.. lol), and of course our shitty deal for Ibrahimovic (never forget that), then yes he is worth not only 15, but up to 20..
But, in a reasonable football market, where ozil is worth 16m, he is worth the same as VDV last summer, hardly worth 10 m..