How much is Ar$havin Worth??

Here he is.. you can have him for £24 million!! Yesterday Barcelona bid £12 million and was shot down like a dodo bird with Zenit saying he's worth £24 mill.

This strapping 27-year old fellow lead Zenit St Petersburg to the UEFA Cup victory. In the final he managed to tally two assists in their dominating 2-0 victory against the Scottish side Rangers. He also lost me free breakfast and lunch when he made the Dutch defence look like a bunch of school boys when he lead Russia to a 3-1 victory where he had a goal and an assist in extra time. But when they played Spain in the semi-finals i didn't even know he was on the field

So is a £24 mill price tag fair. In my opinion, not a chance. Lets take a look at the transfer market history and see who else has been moved for a fee of around £24 mill. The names that pop up on this wonderful list are Pavel Nedved £25.5, Daniel Alves £25.33, Arjen Robben £24.46, Mickael Essien £24.43, and Didier Drogba at a whopping £24 million. I know these players hadn't reached their peak before their transfers, except for maybe Robben, at the time they were FAR better players then Arshavin.

What I find even funnier is that Inter bids £8 mill on Lampard who is arguably one the best midfielders in the game. He has scored over 100 goals in 7 years at Chelsea, now if that doesn't seem odd to you get a cat scan cause some thing's wrong upstairs. You may ask, well how many goals did Arshavin score while he's been at Zenit. Well it doesn't matter... Zenit plays in Russia and the leagues aren't exactly at the same level. The age difference... well Lampard is 3 years his senior but the level of play is dramatically different.

This £24 mill price tag is great for Zenit, because the Roman Abramovich (Chelsea's owner) is Russian, and I'm sure he'll pay that pocket change for his home boy. Its amazing what people will pay for players that play great in a couple games in their life.

Is he worth it... I think not....