Olof Mellberg

[Barca 2011]

Last few weeks have been to watch my local team here in Alicante province - Elche. cf
Doing well in the Spanish equivalent of our Championship. Top at the moment so could make La Liga next season
Just got back from the game tonight - beat Villareal who were relegated from La Liga last year.
Great surprise when they announced the teams and Olof Mellberg was in the Villareal team.
Had a good game , Maybe I'm a bit biased. Had the Elche centre forward well under control
but  nothing he could do to about the Elche winning goal.
Great to see him still playing well - Legend

[Toronto Villa]

Has a great playing career. Making a decent fist of it as a manager. Fucks to give about his appearance…zero.

[Rory]

Has a great playing career. Making a decent fist of it as a manager. Fucks to give about his appearance…zero.

I would...

[troygraham]

Last few weeks have been to watch my local team here in Alicante province - Elche. cf
Doing well in the Spanish equivalent of our Championship. Top at the moment so could make La Liga next season
Just got back from the game tonight - beat Villareal who were relegated from La Liga last year.
Great surprise when they announced the teams and Olof Mellberg was in the Villareal team.
Had a good game geometry dash scratch, Maybe I'm a bit biased. Had the Elche centre forward well under control
but  nothing he could do to about the Elche winning goal.
Great to see him still playing well - Legend

Yes, he is a legend.

[sid1964]

Looks as though he has just been woken up from a very long sleep.

[Dogtanian]

Looks as though he has just been woken up from a very long sleep.

He reminded me of Maximilian Schell in the second greatest film ever made - The Black Hole.

[Risso]

He looks like Nick Nolte in Down and Out in Beverley Hills, pre-haircut/shower.

[Toronto Villa]

About to be names new head coach of St Louis City in MLS. Now two former Villa managing in the league with Deano in Charlotte.

[cdbearsfan]

St Louis City. Another imaginative job with the team naming, well done MLS...

[Tuscans]

Olof Mellberg splashed £40,000 on 3,100 Villa kits, given to every one of the fans who travelled to see Villa at West Ham in his final game for Villa #OnThisDay.

This would cost £372,000 if done today.

[Somniloquism]

Not sure your maths are correct. Weren't they £60 quid RRP back then and are now £85/£110 depending on fan/pro. So £100k or so. Not that he paid full price then or would now as neither time was under Doug.

[Tuscans]

Not sure your maths are correct. Weren't they £60 quid RRP back then and are now £85/£110 depending on fan/pro. So £100k or so. Not that he paid full price then or would now as neither time was under Doug.

Bigger numbers, bigger headlines.

I pinched it from someone else but he he did "reportedly" splash out 40k for just over 3000...didn't he?

[Somniloquism]

No idea how much he spent but it would have worked out around £12 per shirt at those numbers which we definitely were not selling them for in the shop, even for end of season lines.

[Tuscans]

No idea how much he spent but it would have worked out around £12 per shirt at those numbers which we definitely were not selling them for in the shop, even for end of season lines.

I dunno I think they would of been around the £12-£15 mark at the end of the season 18 odd years ago. You can buy a shirt now from the OS for £25, inflation, materials cost etc and all that I reckon those numbers add up.

[Somniloquism]

Still only doubles the price but call it £100k* to add extras. The figure quoted in the original post seems to be at the RRP for the shirt as new.

*And tbh it would still have been about 1 weeks wages for him now as it was then.