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But essentially the first thing a club will do if they want to sign a player these days is not contact his club, it's contact his agent. So PSG may well have thought about bidding, but they will have phoned Barnett, and he'll have said, sorry Gareth has his heart set on Real. That's the reality of big players moving. Why didn't Arsenal put RVP on the open market last year? He only wanted United.Maybe he does want to go to Real Madrid and Real Madrid only.
How does it harm him to have open bidding from Monaco, Anzi, PSG, City and Chelsea?
It doesn't. It helps him. His fee increases, thus his cut of the fee, and he can demand better wages.
When we look for jobs, we try and make it out like we're looking at other options and that's over an extra 2000 a year.