A 33-year-old centre-half with a dodgy fitness reading and a price tag that would make Mohamed Salah blink — that's the curiosity sat in Bergamo's shop window this week, and so far not a single club has so much as kicked the tyres.

Berat Djimsiti is up for grabs. The Albanian, a 93-rated rock at the back, has been listed by his Italian side with a minimum bid of 80,000,000 SVC. And before anyone gets carried away: that is an asking price, not a deal. Auction 47404 hasn't even kicked off. The bid log reads, in full, nothing. Empty. Not a peep.

The numbers don't lie — and they're shouting

Here's why nobody's biting. The game values Djimsiti at 16,017,415 SVC. Bergamo want 80 million. That's a near-enough 5x premium on his market valuation — 4.99 times, if you want it to the decimal. You don't need to be a markets reporter to spot that the buyer and the seller are looking at very different spreadsheets.

To put 80M in context: across every active transfer listing in the game right now, only one player carries a steeper ask — Liverpool's 99-rated Mohamed Salah, parked at 120M. That makes Djimsiti the dearest defender on the market by a country mile and the second-priciest player full stop. Compare him to Auxerre's Clément Akpa (rated 90, valued 23.9M, listed at 110M) or Madrid White's veteran right-back at 55.6M and you see a pattern at the top end — sellers slap fat premiums on elite shirts. But a 5x multiple on a player the engine ceilings at a 128.1M maximum bid is ambitious in anyone's language.

What you'd actually be buying

He's a proper defender, mind, don't let the price-tag cynicism fool you. Rating 93, with a tackling number to match it at 93, passing at 83 and shooting at 82. Two-footed cover across the whole back line — listed at CB but rated for LB and RB too. The catch: he's 33, he's only 35 days back from injury with fitness sitting at 76, and he's on 612,500 SVC a week with two seasons still to run. Whoever pays the premium inherits the wage bill too.

Why now?

Bergamo aren't skint — the books show a 32.7M SVC balance — and they're hardly a fire sale, sitting 10th in ITA Division 1 with a squad valued north of 289M and a top-21 average rating of 87. Manager Allancole12345 looks to be testing the market rather than slashing prices, dangling a name-brand defender at a number that says "make me an offer I can't refuse" rather than "everything must go."

For now the listing is doing what a punchy asking price always does: generating chatter, not bids. Eighty million for a 33-year-old on the mend is a long way north of 16. Until someone decides that 93-rated experience is worth the eye-watering markup, Djimsiti stays exactly where he is — in the window, lights on, doors shut. I'll be watching the bid log. Don't hold your breath.