Interestingly, and you’re bang on the money, this has been the same trick up the sleeve for nigh on 10 years yet the rest of the jacket is constantly ignored, the fact it works on our competitors, still, brings joy to the illusion (:
Wirtz is some player, be foolish to ignore but this in essence is his direct rival, one or the other yet markedly different in cost, and in gambling terms, no brainer, he’s a bonafide steal and the epitome of our model; margins for growth attached to his development plan, his contract is flexible, where wirtz at the same age, is fixed; there’s a consensus of financial ceilings for deals like his, they aren’t sustainable, mooted wages of 250-300k already, which we walked away from; comparably we could say Haaland but he was cheap as chips transfer wise, and the end goal on the renewal was justifiable in his first two years…
Cherki is a rinse and repeat approach, overly ignored because we aren’t arsed about murmurings of ‘rejection’ when every time we’ve done it, barring the odd anomaly, the proof on full display in our outcomes….
And in conclusion, he also has a snidey side Bernardo would be proud of, wirtz is yet to show that, which is essential in that position in the prem, he is a bit lavender, could be wrong but more than happy (:
