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Wasn't their last offer £70m?
Can't imagine they would go all the way to meet in person with Levy to raise it by just £5m.
Sure by all means try and get the best financial deal you can. But there comes a point where any advantage the club gains by saving money off the fee is outweighed by the fact that we have a gaping critical hole in our defence that could derail our season which starts in two weeks, and we have known CB was a priority position for months before the window even opened.OK, but you're making out like this is always what happens, when it patently is not.
Porro, first choice, we paid what they wanted. Now with hindsight lots of people think that was bad.
Maddison, first choice, done quickly and got a good deal.
Kulusevski and Bentancur, first choice done quickly and for good prices.
Going back, Ndombele and Gio were first choices, they took time but were the players Poch wanted.
Richarlison we paid big money for as we wanted him.
The idea that we should just go in and offer whatever is being asked is just not how things work. Every team tries to get the best deal they can, and that's exactly the right way to go about things. Now yes, if that ends up hindering us from making any signings, or the right ones, that's obviously problem. And that is what happens some of the time, but not all of the time.
I agree that Levy/Enic should be doing more, we should be in a better position, but we don't need to go down such black and white routes, because it doesn't deal fairly with history at all.
Lol £75 million? Surely the journo has just plucked that out of his arse. I don’t believe for a second that a) we’d accept that, or b) That Bayern would think we would accept that.
Well if the club had any sense or foresight they would've realised Conte was almost certainly leaving, not bothered to sign a specialist wing back for 45m and then used said 45m to invest in a CB in the summer when we inevitably changed manager.Sure by all means try and get the best financial deal you can. But there comes a point where any advantage the club gains by saving money off the fee is outweighed by the fact that we have a gaping critical hole in our defence that could derail our season which starts in two weeks, and we have knew CB was a priority position for months before the window even opened.
And while it might not happen every time, it happens often enough. When was Porro signed? With about 20 minutes left in the January window. Not only might he have been useful in what was a pretty indifferent run of form in January, he would have had an extra month to settle in.
The problem is they hold all the cards.
Take the money, sell Kane abroad, keep the fans happy (relative I know).
Or keep him. Then he goes to a prem rival for nothing in 12 months....
We will end up dragging this out and sell him to Bayern on deadline day at this rate.