Is that how you treat a job interview or a house sale or how you behave at a car showroom?
Please please I am desperate for you to buy my house, I want to sell it today, you can have it for nothing?
Or... I want that car, I have to have that car, I don't want any other car, please please sell it to me....
No.... I suspect not. If De Bruyn has any sense at all he will be playing it to maximise his salary and sign on bonus, he will be making sure he doesn't burn any bridges in case we suddenly get offered Isco or Bale and we go cold or if another club comes in with a better offer.
I reckon Wolfsburg have played it well and will absolutely maximise what they get for us and De Bruyn is playing it smart. Keep your mouth shut in public, don't bad mouth or betray your current employer and possible future employers and don't burn bridges.
Seems a common attitude in this thread that both de Bruyn and Wolfsburg should be putting our interests ahead of their own. If City want him we should push to get him and do what it takes, De Bruyn and his agent should be trying to get the best deal for him, Wolfsburg should be trying to get the most out of selling him they can.
Simple as that.... All this flapping, making emotional not rational decisions is not what any of the parties should be doing!
Half the board wanted us to walk away from sterling when it was t completed for 30m inside a week.