The Athletic - £222m for Shearer

[Gucci Massive]

Shearers record was excellent at Blackburn, but it could be argued he only had 4 good seasons out of 10 at Newcastle. And also for such a prolific domestic player his goals per game record for England was poor. Not saying he was crap for England but he should have been better than people like Peter crouch.

He was phenomenal until his first serious injury at the Mags under Dogleash. Then he went right off the boil till Sir Bobby sorted him out. He was class again albeit as a different type of player but at that stage he was behind the likes of Henry, Van Nistlerooy, Rooney, Drogba.

 

[Mackemmichael]

A truly ridiculous article that could be applied to any player to have played the game.

To play along, however , what about Phillips in his prime? £150 million??

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

A truly ridiculous article that could be applied to any player to have played the game.

To play along, however , what about Phillips in his prime? £150 million??

That’s not what it does. It just adjusts the fees paid for them by football inflation

 

[two left feet]

Ahhh but how much would Milton Nunez be worth?

 

[sunderpitt]

Shearer was f***ing quality tbf, great player.

Yep but very silly to play for the skunks and win SFA

 

[Scootsie]

Yep but very silly to play for the skunks and win SFA

To be fair, if I could play for Sunderland and England, earn an absolute fortune and be worshipped by my home fans, I wouldn’t really care about trophies.

 

[Hardyman's Yugo]

I’d far rather have Kane. A better all round footballer and far less of a c*^t

 

[sunderpitt]

To be fair, if I could play for Sunderland and England, earn an absolute fortune and be worshipped by my home fans, I wouldn’t really care about trophies.

She-ra probably agreed with you, that is why he didn't win much after Blackburn.

Or perhaps he hated Ferguson, or was just stupid...

 

[Wayne The Punk]

I didnt read it tbf. Just jumped straight in slating the mag

As you should

 

[yossarian31]

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How much would Greaves be worth?

 

[John the Savage]

So basically ,they think Shearer is worth twice as much as other top premiership players. Numpties.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

So basically ,they think Shearer is worth twice as much as other top premiership players. Numpties.

No. That’s not what it says at all

 

[John the Savage]

No. That’s not what it says at all

It's what the headlines states - I'm not reading that garbage, the headline figure says it all -worth more than twice as much as Henry...wye aye!

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

It's what the headlines states - I'm not reading that garbage, the headline figure says it all -worth more than twice as much as Henry...wye aye!

It doesn’t. It says how much they would cost

So they’ve inflation adjusted £15m in 1995 for Shearer. And £11m for Henry in 1999

It’s a pointless article, but it’s not looking at value/worth

 

[nelford_safc]

£15m and £222m to watch an Englishman not win the European Golden Boot.

 

[Mackem2017]

The Athletic is another that’s standards are massively slipping. Too many mag journalists amongst them and too many articles on one of their ‘journalists’ playing as Newcastle on football manager and updating us all on his progress. No wonder I keep getting emails to sign up for £12 for the whole year

 

[sponge]

Henry wasn’t better than shearer like.

 

[burb]

Fantastic player and one of the better pundits. Always thought he was very fair in his assessment of us on MOTD.

 

[Dodgy]

Fantastic player and one of the better pundits. Always thought he was very fair in his assessment of us on MOTD.

Couldn't agree more. If he'd been from somewhere else and plied his trade elsewhere, people would have no reason to hate him and so, would talk of him as a great.

 

[Nimajben]

Seems the greatest goalscorers dont end up with the games biggest medal hauls. Greaves holds record of pre=Premier goals in top flight and he never won a title. Kane looks most likely to get nearest to Shearer Premier record and he not yet won a proper medal. Shearer got the one title.