We were prepared to pay 65m to take sanchez a year earlier, as we are a fair club that respects other clubs' valuations. When it collapsed due to arsenal failing to get a replacement, it was almost touted as a guarantee that he would move here on a free. Yet in jan, he ended up at utd.
Madrid paid 130m to get hazard a year earlier than the would have, you bet he wouldnt have gone anywhere else.
Barca paid to get cesc. I could keep going. Big clubs pay others' valuations, to get the players they want, when they want.
Bayern, are a parochial little-minded ordeal who think their untouchable dominance of their joke of a league (rendered such by bayern's own disregard for anyone else) applies to the rest of the continent.
70m for a player of his ability, age and potential is a bloody steal. If roles were reversed, i'd be saying dont fuck about pay it. I really hope their gamble comes to haunt them.