Tom Inces new valuation.

Just stinks of trouble where Paul Ince is concerned, I'd be put off by his involvement alone.

As for value, he's worth as much as someone is willing to pay for him, not what someone says he's worth, the same as any asset.

This should have been in the jokes thread.

Blackpool trying to squeeze more money for one of their players? Never!!

The sad thing is: I can actually see us paying over-the-odds for him.

The sad thing is: I can actually see us paying over-the-odds for him.

With one year on his contract I hope not.

The thing is though that in my opinion is a player we need.

He has come on leaps and bounds at Blackpool.

Why Paul has decided to come out and say that is a bit nuts but i can see why.

On one hand he has stacked the pressure on his son and also possibly deterred a few potential suitors but on the other hand he is very aware that his son is gonna leave and he has a job on his hands to be successful at Blackpool.

In terms of comparing to Zaha i do reckon that Thomas is a better player but then again i am hugely bias and always want a big signing for the scum to fall flat on their faces!

Dont we get a third of whatever fee he goes for? if we get him for 8 million - great - if someone wants to bay that amount for him we have covered our fee for Coutinho by shipping Ince of fto blackpool.

If you had been asked at the time whether you wanted Countinho for the price of Ince leaving I know what I'd have said

F**k me how much is Suarez worth then?

Probably a little off of a comparison i make. When we bought Cisse and Chelsea bought Drogba, we bought the top scorer of the league with less money than Chelsea bought Drogba. Time proves Drogba went on to become a better performer than Cisse. My point is Ince may play better and may cost less but who's to say Zaha who cost a whopping more isn't going to perform better than Ince eventually? Until both start to play in the Premiership, the comparison have probably start too early.

That's not comparable. Abramovich had just taken over Chelsea back then, spend 140 million pounds that summer. And Drogba only signed a year earlier for Marseille, who were a big enough club to not sell for cheap and Chelsea grossly overpaid. Drogba also performed very well in Europe that year, I remember he lost the UEFA Cup final with Marseille against Rafa's Valencia that year. Auxerre wasn't that big a club, and untill this day that 15 million they got for Cissé is the highest transfer fee they ever recieved.

But everybody knows transfer fees don't accurately depict quality, there's other factors involved that influence transfer fees.