Another takeaway: some of the least profitable transfers are due to impatience or not knowing how to use the player: Lucas Paquetá, De Ketelaere, Lukaku, Schick, Cristian Romero.
An interesting piece would be on the trend for the bigger clubs to buy promising youngsters and how they generate transfer funds on their sale. Man City & Chelsea have done this in scale over recent years.
Thanks for this analysis, the flipping process has always fascinated me and I’m surprised wealthier clubs don’t invest in it as part of their strategy. Or maybe they do but we don’t realise it. At Arsenal, the likes of Fabio Vieira and Lokonga were probably best thought of as flip candidates rather than long term development cases. If I was a sporting director, I’d always aim to have a few flip options in the first team squad to balance the books.
Some other thoughts… perhaps it should be flips and flops… would be fascinating to know how much the flips or flops increased in value after their moves… including anything longer than three years feels like a stretch. Xhaka and Laporte don’t feel like flips or flops… Chelsea’s entire model is seemingly geared around flips, how well/badly is it working
Great analysis!
Another takeaway: some of the least profitable transfers are due to impatience or not knowing how to use the player: Lucas Paquetá, De Ketelaere, Lukaku, Schick, Cristian Romero.
An interesting piece would be on the trend for the bigger clubs to buy promising youngsters and how they generate transfer funds on their sale. Man City & Chelsea have done this in scale over recent years.
Thanks for this analysis, the flipping process has always fascinated me and I’m surprised wealthier clubs don’t invest in it as part of their strategy. Or maybe they do but we don’t realise it. At Arsenal, the likes of Fabio Vieira and Lokonga were probably best thought of as flip candidates rather than long term development cases. If I was a sporting director, I’d always aim to have a few flip options in the first team squad to balance the books.
Some other thoughts… perhaps it should be flips and flops… would be fascinating to know how much the flips or flops increased in value after their moves… including anything longer than three years feels like a stretch. Xhaka and Laporte don’t feel like flips or flops… Chelsea’s entire model is seemingly geared around flips, how well/badly is it working
I don’t think legacy big clubs but to sell.
Interesting idea to explore how the flips (and flops) value evolved once passed the transfer. Noted for future pieces 😅
Brilliant analysis... Thanks!