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Declan Rice
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First of all Pep doesn't "instruct" who to bid for and how much.
Targets are identified and a maximum price agreed by several people "including Pep".
There is no random bidding just to raise a prices to another club.
Aluko may be right, that is what happens in lower/other leagues "as it's what she has done in the past".
There is not a cat in hell's chance that happening at an elite club. It would be absolutely amateur hour for any to club to do this "to do their mate a favour".
So she is totally wrong about City doing this.
Now of course there may be an unintended benefit to bidding then withdrawing if a bid isn't accepted.
Like what happened with Sanchez and United. Our bid was turned down. So we quietly moved on to other business.
United were apparently unaware of this, and some how got themselves in a bidding war when they were the only bidder!
The result was they massively over paid, which meant they were less threat to us for our other targets.
Anybody suggesting she was in any way right is a dumb as she is...
Targets are identified and a maximum price agreed by several people "including Pep".
There is no random bidding just to raise a prices to another club.
Aluko may be right, that is what happens in lower/other leagues "as it's what she has done in the past".
There is not a cat in hell's chance that happening at an elite club. It would be absolutely amateur hour for any to club to do this "to do their mate a favour".
So she is totally wrong about City doing this.
Now of course there may be an unintended benefit to bidding then withdrawing if a bid isn't accepted.
Like what happened with Sanchez and United. Our bid was turned down. So we quietly moved on to other business.
United were apparently unaware of this, and some how got themselves in a bidding war when they were the only bidder!
The result was they massively over paid, which meant they were less threat to us for our other targets.
Anybody suggesting she was in any way right is a dumb as she is...
goalmole
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The fact we bid a figure that had already been rejected tells me it was just a message to Arsenal that we were interested and intended to panic them into upping their bid.The one caveat to that is why bid £90m, a figure which Arse had rejected days before?
It's as if we wanted to panic Arse into massively upping their bid, & then telling all involved "It's a bit rich for our blood blud, so we're out!"
Arse fans ain't happy! Can't you tell? A few days ago the place was crawling with em, but they've disappeared up their own arses since we "ended our interest" lickety split! Lol :-)
It was a free hit for us.
If we were serious about buying him, surely our initial bid would have been higher than Arsenal's.
Decepticon
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Embarrassing stuff from assna fans tonight.
Did they forget we won the treble? The only reason he's joining them lot because we pulled out.
Did they forget we won the treble? The only reason he's joining them lot because we pulled out.
Metal Biker
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Good.Fuck me giddy arsenal fans on sky sports news already.
Can't stop laughing. One was saying they are back.
I thought they was back last year. Looks like they've won the 'we've signed more players than you' trophy already.
Fuckin tarquins.
After all it was their "title challenge" that spurned us on to a memorable Treble.
Hope they do the same next season!
Bigga
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The thought of the Arse spending £170m (so far), just to tread water delights me.
If they found themselves an actual finisher, that would have me a bit more nervous.
We have spent £25M to tread water, also, but we're the ones others have to catch.
We have form for making others drive up their own offers, just for us to switch tact that keeps us ahead of the chasers.
It's like other clubs never learn.
Er.. Gvardiol...?
Danamy
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West Ham have played a blinder to be honest, they knew Arsenal wanted Rice and Vice Versa, player agreed personal terms and just club to agree fee, used the convenience of City being at the table to squeeze Arsenal to a fee they were happy with. If City weren't at the table then Arsenal would be 20mill better off, negatives can become positives :-)
He was never choosing City
He was never choosing City
The fact we bid a figure that had already been rejected tells me it was just a message to Arsenal that we were interested and intended to panic them into upping their bid.
It was a free hit for us.
If we were serious about buying him, surely our initial bid would have been higher than Arsenal's.
Don't forget a similar offer from Arsenal or any Italian club likely has a different structure than an offer from City
West Ham have played a blinder to be honest, they knew Arsenal wanted Rice and Vice Versa, player agreed personal terms and just club to agree fee, used the convenience of City being at the table to squeeze Arsenal to a fee they were happy with. If City weren't at the table then Arsenal would be 20mill better off, negatives can become positives :-)
He was never choosing City
Bit bizarre that our two top targets didn't want to choose City.
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