Xavi Hernández

[LaMessiah]

As always, PL players are massively overrated by the english media. They rate Mascherano at 37m and Fabregas at 40m... just because they played in the PL.

and kompany at 22m while pique is at 15... lmfao, what a joke of an "article"

 

[mitkoa7x]

The Sun, trying to prove Barca sucks from the dawn of time. pathetic....

 

[estranged]

The best 1 is yaya being more expensive than busi, irony or what

 

[HerpDerp]

Or Yaya being cheaper than Kolo.


And... just saw it: Xavi cheaper than Barry.

 

[VincevvZ]

woww terrible, they should bow for the king xavi. its just criminal to talk about him like that. what a joke

 

[lessthanjake]

The value of a player is the value of all expected future contributions to his teams. In that sense, Xavi is not worth THAT much simply because he does not have THAT many future years left to contribute in. Only in that sense is it justifiable to value players such as Nigel de Jong higher than Xavi. You COULD argue that 2-4 more years of Xavi is worth the same as 7-9 more years of Nigel de Jong. I don't agree with that, but it's arguable.

What is NOT arguable is to say that Gareth Barry is worth more than Xavi. Barry is 1 year younger than Xavi, and by far a lesser player.


EDIT: Another one I like is David Silva being worth more than Iniesta. They play a similar type of game and Silva is quite good, and two years younger than Iniesta, but, Iniesta is definitely a or two class ahead.

Some other laughers:
- Joleon Lescott worth the same as Pique, despite being 5 years older and just a way worse player.
- Balotelli worth more than Pedro
- Maxwell worth more than half the Barcelona team, including Xavi.

I could go on.

 

[Drunkmunky]

[...] What is NOT arguable is to say that Gareth Barry is worth more than Xavi. Barry is 1 year younger than Xavi, and by far a lesser player.

Who the fuck is Barry anyway?

 

[lessthanjake]

Who the fuck is Barry anyway?

Hahaha yeah its absurd; he's basically the type of player who is good enough to get a fair number of caps for his national team, but not by any means an all-time great type of player. I would equate him to someone like Marcos Senna (from a few years ago, not right now, given that Senna is 35), but even that might be a stretch.

 

[Galning]

Iniesta out, Xavi in. Pedro out, Villa in.
This team is gold.

 

[Yugi]

 

[Barcafan 2304]

Lol, class.....like the Madrid bit

 

[10Rivaldo]

Lyon (friends)

 

[dalitis8]

Could have been much better.

 

[LaMessiah]

too many question marks

 

[Barcaman]

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