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They did chuckle about Sissoko too. Look how that's turned out. When a player is bought, it is his ability at the time, but also his potential. If Poch sees potential, he will forge another Sissoko. We haven't had many flops aquired during his tenure. I mean proper flops, not players who simply reached their ceiling while the team has progressed (Trips, sadly)
It's the standard fee for players in this bracket in this league. You shouldn't compare transfer fees of Prem club to clubs abroad because Prem clubs have more money so players being bought by a Premier League basef team will always be expensive, for example Chelsea bought Pulisic for £50m compared to Dortmund buying Hazard and Brandt for half the price.
I read somewhere that Perez is one of the best presses off the ball in the league and he has excellent defensive attributes if that's the case you can see why Poch likes him, clearly improving as a player as well so I'm fully on board with the if Poch thinks he can do a job then I'm all for it because the guy hash turns water into wine and proved me wrong nuemorous times - Sissoko being the best example.
IF we sign him, I'll have faith in Poch to improve him, but until then we all have our thoughts on who is and is not good enough. I just don't much like him is all I'm saying, for what little it's worth! Also have to pour slightly cold water on the Poch is God thing...Poch signed Sissoko and yet seemed to have given up on him after 2 years. We were without Dembele, Wanyama, Dier and Winks for parts of this season and only then did he get a proper run. It's not the case that this was Poch's masterplan all along. He'd probably have commissioned his sale last summer given an option.