- Feb 1, 2015
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Why aren't we targeting these young players who come to Europe, instead of waiting two years to pay a premium for them?
It's definitely not as easy as 'just identifying these players and making a move for them before they make that move to another european club', but I understand where you're coming from.
It is quite frustrating to see the likes of Malcom, David Neres, Leon Bailey, Timo Werner etc with a £40m+ price tag on their head when they were all brought into their current clubs as highly rated prospects for reasonably small fees...
The Dembele who is now at Barcelona went for around £12m to Dortmund from Rennes, even our own Davinson Sanchez was sold to Ajax for around £4m before we had to pay 10 times that a year later to get him...