- Aug 13, 2005
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I can't see it being anything less than £100m. For optics alone it is a lot easier to spin that we got good fee for our best ever player, with less than a year left on his contract, if we can report £100m+ than anything below.
Agree. People keep saying let’s meet half way. No. If he goes we can’t afford PR wise for it to be anything less than what we want for him. There were stories that we want it all up front too (which could be part of the problem, but we are well within our rights to ask that from one of the richest clubs on the planet) and I’d push for that if I were Levy. Bayern don’t hold any of the cards right now, the longer it goes on they get worse too if they really want the player now, which it doesn’t really look like if they keep coming in and trying to lowball us.