Best transfers 2015-2016

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gerd

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8 January 2002
Over the moon
KRC Genk, Spurs
A very intersting article on the website of the Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/15/transfer-window-success-ngolo-kante-mattia-destro

It's about the best transfers in the big competitions.

Except Di Maria no stars and plenty of players who were supposedly not good enough for the EPL.

Here is the list.

England:
Ngolo Kante
Delle Alli
Dimitri Payet
Toby Alderweireld

Germany:
Douglas Costa (Bayern)
Javier Hernandez (Bayer Leverkusen)
Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund)
Joshua Kimmich (Bayern)

Italy:
Paolo Dybala (Juventus)
Mohammed Salah(AS Roma)
Mathias Destro (Bologna)
Sami Khedira (Juventus)

France:
Angel Di Maria (PSG)
Lassana Diarra (Olympique Marseille)
Hatem Ben Arfa (OGC Nice)
Thomas Lemar (As Monaco)

Spain:
Yannick Carrasco
Roberto Soldado (Villareal)
Borja Baston (Eibar)
Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo)


Average transfer fee: 9,1 million pound.

Any thoughts?

Seems a very accurate list.
 
bacca should be on the list for italy. yoshinori muto for germany. bakambu for spain.
 
Godotelli said:
PL rejects doing well in France is hardly surprising tbh
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Not only in France, also in the Bundesliga, arguably a league that is as strong as the EPL.

Also in La Liga (Soldado).

If you look at the results in Europe the EPL might well be the weakest of all these leagues (but that is not the best benchmark).

A player like Ben Arfa did reasonably well in England, but he had to play under a clown of a manager (Pardew) who never used him.

And Di Maria was Real Madrid's best player in the year they won the CL. Things didn't went his way at United. One could say exactly the same about Soldado at Spurs.

One might ask if a player does not perform well for a certain club, if he is to blame or the manager...
 
Godotelli said:
PL rejects doing well in France is hardly surprising tbh
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Contrary to popular belief, history actually tells us, that IS somewhat surprising. That's because you won't be able to name too many 'rejects' doing well in Ligue 1 prior to this year.

Although that's a pretty dumb term anyway as it's subjective and how do you really define a 'reject'?

What's funny is that English fans always seem to forget about the players that did POORLY in the other top European leagues but flourished in EPL! There are quite a few...
 
Each league, no even team, is too different and their systems vary that it's really hard to say if a player failed is because of the player, the manager, the team or the league.

There are easier definitions out there that speaks of the physicality of EPL/Bundesliga vs that of Spain where fouls are given more frequently, but apart from that, it is really hard to say which league is more about skills, which is more about speed....and thus, different players will work flourish under different environments.
 
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