In the Premier League and beyond, some of the biggest money paid this summer has been for players either approaching or past 30 years old. twoht
In the Premier League and beyond, some of the biggest money paid this summer has been for players either approaching or past 30 years old.One of the big anomalies of this summer’s transfer window has been the amount of money spent on what are perceived to be ‘older’ players.
This isn’t entirely down to position, although it is clear that some positions age better than others. At one extreme, one statistical analysis carried out byfound that, in terms of their desire to take on and beat opponents, wingers start high and peak in their early 20s, with a big fall-off in the number of ‘take-ons’ attempted coming from around 29 years old on.
Boots are no longer clogs, match balls no longer resemble medicine balls, and pitches are lush green carpets for most professionals in comparison with the mud baths of the past, but it should also be added that injuries that were likely career-ending 60 or 70 years ago can be perfectly recoverable nowadays, thanks to developments in the ways in which they are treated.
They are, if nothing else, highly valuable financial assets, and the trend for amortising player contracts means that they’re much less likely to be kicked to the kerb than they used to be. Cristiano Ronaldo was the second oldest outfield player in the Premier League last season after Thiago Silva, yet was its third-highest goalscorer.
Would different warming up, conditioning or equipment have helped Pele? It’s impossible to say. What we know for certain is that there were no substitutions in 1962, and that he limped on for a while because going off would reduce his team to 10 players.
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