The Three Amigos: Money Well Spent.

Normally, a massive transfer fee is a good omen for future. Big money means big abilities and this usually translates well. However, this is not always the case – Andriy Shevchenko says hi – and even if the money does ring true, it doesn’t always happen right from the start. But when you put three huge money transfers into one big bowl, one of them should surely flop, right? Not so for the case of this summer’s La Liga boys, who’re already rewarding their employers with plenty of stat sheet fillers.

We probably shouldn’t have expected anything less, given that the three players in question are probably three of the five or so best players in the world (a discussion for another day). But even two weeks into the season, these players have, combined, had their hands in more goals than most professional footballers will all season.

In fact just this weekend alone, their respective teams scored 5 combined goals and one of the three had a hand in every goal – with Cristiano not even in the starting lineup.

Real v Espanyol

Barca v Getafe

And this means over the course of the first two weeks of the La Liga season, their contributions look like this:

Cristiano: 2 goals.
Kaka: 2 assists
Zlatan: 2 goals, assist.

These are, of course, just the “stats”. Football is beautiful in that true impact can rarely be determined quantitatively, and oftentimes it’s up for debate. What isn’t up for debate is that these three have not failed even one day in living up to their massive transfer fees – a value hovering somewhere around the €225m mark. (That sum would buy most football clubs.)

But this is right off the bat in a new country in a new league with new teammates, new tactics and new footballing methodologies. Even with the astronomical fees, it shoes just how good these players are and it shows just as equally…they might just have been worth the money.

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Category: Spain La Liga, World Football