Solihull Samba Boys said:
Akira said:
Sources on Twitter continue momentum on United sitting down with Atletico to discuss Falcao fee.
I will enter depression if that happens. Would probably cost something like 60m/70m.
Discussing a fee? Those discussions would be so short they could take place on Snapchat or something equally as inane.
Falcao has a release clause of something like £47 million. That's what a club will need to pay to get him. Nothing to discuss about the fee.
Unless I remember this totally wrong, Falcao is half owned my some sort of investment group (who will - without doubt - want their part of the release clause).
Couple that with Atletico wanting/needing to have money to re-invest in a replacement, there is no way that the clause will even be up for negotiation.
The best a club like Utd (or us) can hope for is that they can offload Hernandez/Dzeko as the replacement, thus giving Atletico a little cash (about 12m) and the investment group all of their cash (23.5m), but that'd still be breaking the British transfer record, even without the player.