one of the biggest disappointments for me was we let players like sanchez, di maria, and ozil join our rivals without a fight, if we could spend 28 on bony on the winter window of same season, surely we could have agreed a deal with barca which wouldn't effect our books for that season, something along the lines of negredo and jovetic deal, loan for a season with a must buy clause
He wanted London, his missus did and he snubbed us once before when he went to Barca being our first target that summer. You can't fix any problem with money, sometimes players just want the other option, they get huge money anyway so even if your offer is best is not huge deal if you offer them odd million more when they earn 10-15 anyway.