Robbie Brady (M Preston b.1992)

**BonnieShels** · 29/07/2015, 5:13 PM

Originally Posted by DeLorean

Probably, but that's the Roy Keane who captained Manchester United during the most successful period in their history, not the Roy Keane who who was merely a stand out player in a relegated Nottingham Forest side.

Roy Keane has never been merely anything.

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Well I wasn't talking about what he was worth, just what the original fee would translate to.

Confirmed by Norwich: http://www.canaries.co.uk/news/artic...y-2579067.aspx

I know. I wasn't disputing that. I was merely saying that at 60m you would have a bargain.

**Kingdom** · 30/07/2015, 8:19 AM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

I do. The world record fee at the time was £13m. That makes Roy's fee a little more than 1/4 of the largest fee paid, which would be ~25m of today's money. Now that's obviously not right either as it was a British record fee, so you'd have to put the fee somewhere in between £25m and £80m. I'd say you could probably adjust it a bit above the midpoint, so let's say £55-60m.

Now Charlie, be fair. That world record fee was for Gigi Lentini, if I'm correct. And there is serious question marks over Italian transfer fees, between Italian clubs from the late 80's up to the mid-noughties, something that hasn't been investigated properly. In some cases I would question if fees were paid at all.

Out of interest what was the next highest fee to Lentini?

**DeLorean** · 30/07/2015, 8:30 AM

Originally Posted by Kingdom

Out of interest what was the next highest fee to Lentini?

Vialli £12m.... Samp to Juve the same year.

**BonnieShels** · 30/07/2015, 9:11 AM

Originally Posted by DeLorean

Vialli £12m.... Samp to Juve the same year.

DThat Denilson transfer has always perplexed me. I mean... Betis ffs!

**GypsyBlackCat** · 30/07/2015, 9:58 AM

That's a good move for Brady. Norwich are very well ran club and like to play good football. Decent fan base too. But I still think they might go down.

Even if they do, they'd be in a good position both on and off the pitch to bounce straight back.

As for Roy Keane. If he was playing today he'd worth around £50m-£60m. That's about the going rate for world class defensive midfielder now days.

**Crosby87** · 30/07/2015, 2:15 PM

Do you fine chaps think his cousin Tom is really going to go through with suing the NFL?

**tricky_colour** · 30/07/2015, 9:28 PM

more like Robbie sues the FAI

**DeLorean** · 02/08/2015, 12:12 PM

Played the full ninety minutes of Norwich's preseason win over Brentford yesterday... at left back.

**geysir** · 04/08/2015, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by GypsyBlackCat

That's a good move for Brady. Norwich are very well ran club and like to play good football. Decent fan base too. But I still think they might go down.

Even if they do, they'd be in a good position both on and off the pitch to bounce straight back.

As for Roy Keane. If he was playing today he'd worth around £50m-£60m. That's about the going rate for world class defensive midfielder now days.

Roy in no way could be described as a defensive midfielder at that time. He was an outstanding midfielder, a leader and future captain.
Relative to other transfers while he was a top player for Man U, I stand by my opinion that his fee, at any given time, would have topped them all. Eg, in 2002 the record was 30m for Rio Ferdinand and today that transfer fee would be an absolute whopper, I'd say about 90m
It's not a case of what the transfer price would be if man U were to buy Keane today from a relegated club, facing competition from one other club, it's a question of adjusting the value of his 1993 record transfer to today's values and there is a method in place to do that, to replace opinion and guesswork.
And then there is a huge difference between 2013 transfers prices and 2015 prices, the prices have escalated higher that our perceptions.
Barely have Liverpool sold one valuable player and people say 'good bit of business', but then they look around and see what they can buy and it doesn't match up, once all the slices are taken off the Sterling transfer they just have enough to buy a decent player.
If Roy was available today, facing the prime years of his career, Man U would not just be competing with Blackburn, but also the top clubs in Europe.

**tricky_colour** · 05/08/2015, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by DeLorean

Played the full ninety minutes of Norwich's preseason win over Brentford yesterday... at left back.

Highlights here, I originally posted them in the Hoolahan thread but should be here too nice
run by brady at 2.37

**tetsujin1979** · 05/08/2015, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by geysir

Roy in no way could be described as a defensive midfielder at that time. He was an outstanding midfielder, a leader and future captain.
Relative to other transfers while he was a top player for Man U, I stand by my opinion that his fee, at any given time, would have topped them all. Eg, in 2002 the record was 30m for Rio Ferdinand and today that transfer fee would be an absolute whopper, I'd say about 90m
It's not a case of what the transfer price would be if man U were to buy Keane today from a relegated club, facing competition from one other club, it's a question of adjusting the value of his 1993 record transfer to today's values and there is a method in place to do that, to replace opinion and guesswork.
And then there is a huge difference between 2013 transfers prices and 2015 prices, the prices have escalated higher that our perceptions.
Barely have Liverpool sold one valuable player and people say 'good bit of business', but then they look around and see what they can buy and it doesn't match up, once all the slices are taken off the Sterling transfer they just have enough to buy a decent player.
If Roy was available today, facing the prime years of his career, Man U would not just be competing with Blackburn, but also the top clubs in Europe.

Possibly, but very few top clubs in Europe buy from relegated sides in England

**Charlie Darwin** · 26/09/2015, 2:19 PM

First league goal for Norwich puts them ahead against West Ham. Olsson is back so he's playing left wing, I think.

**Closed Account** · 26/09/2015, 5:48 PM

https://streamable.com/anxf

Serious lack of action in this thread...

**seanfhear** · 26/09/2015, 5:54 PM

A good pass from Noble

**Charlie Darwin** · 26/09/2015, 6:19 PM

Originally Posted by seanfhear

A good pass from Noble

Call him up Marty!

**tricky_colour** · 26/09/2015, 7:01 PM

I wondered what was happening there, seems he has been moved to the wing from left-back, still unusual to see
him in the centre but I guess you might expect the winger to be there in that situation.

Took his goal well and good anticipation of the pass, class goal all round, who need grealish when you have player like brady?

**DeLorean** · 27/09/2015, 12:23 PM

A friend of mine was at Anfield yesterday and said Grealish was probably the best player on the pitch and couldn't believe he was taken off. September is nearly over by the way!!

Interesting about Brady going back to midfield, it never occurred to me that he was only playing left back due to an absentee. I think that's good really in the long run. I reckon we should do the same.

**seanfhear** · 27/09/2015, 12:45 PM

Brady did try to return the favour with a very wayward pass that West Ham probably should have scored from.

It takes time to develop the instants of a defender even though he wasn't playing in defence yesterday. Its a pity we don't have a quality left full back as Robbie would be very useful further up field for us.