Good to see that Ricoo already reacted, because Valgren is for sure not a good example why Ricoo initiated this topic.
Valgren is a good example that for the very few "gems" in this game the market-concept of supply and demand counts.
And a good example that what he is "worth" is subjective, and a different amount to everyone.
For example ;
In my current situation Valgren is to me not "worth" 35M or 50M, despite he is the number 1 DT tour.
If my team was battling for the 1A championship, and if he is the missing link to achieve that, and if I had the money :
then he is "worth" to me more than 50M. And I will bid even more than he is "worth" to me, in case the rivals bid too.
This example can be a "game-philosophy/strategy-issue" because everyone plays this game differently.
A manager can think that my example is a bad buy, especially when I sold him the next season for 7M, he sees it just as a many millions loss.
But another manager (who has more my game-philosophy/game-approach) can think it is an excellent buy despite the many millions loss,
because the real profit was the 1A championship.
What to most managers is almost priceless, and the reason a smart seller uses a market-price-strategy in the way Valgren was sold now.
To me a high price ( and even a way too high price ) for the few "gems" in this game is normal,
but to some others it can be not normal because they play this game with a different game-philosophy,
and I would probably disagree many times with what they think are "normal" prices and what a cyclist should be "worth".
Again, these are subjective issues and to everyone different.
I'm often surprised by many transfers I notice, and in both ways ; sold for way too much, and sold for way too less, in "my opinion".
This topic was initiated because of "just" good cyclists who are clearly overpriced and many times on the transfermarket.
The few good "gems" in this game are not good examples for a "wrong transfermarket", and they will go gor exceptional prices.
In a previous post Valgren is even called as unicorn spotted, what already says enough that this is not a good example.