The money saved on Wirtz won’t upgrade the whole squad as some fantasists seem to think. We will have our pants pulled down by every other club we negotiate with who know we are desperate.
Starting with MGW - 25 years old and 2 England caps and dreadful goals assist record - yet the fee will be eye watering and take multiple bids before Forest would sell.
Anybody thinking we are gonna start pulling rabbits out of hats haven’t been paying attention to our car crash signings last 5 transfer windows.
And for City to start claiming moral high ground over value when most of the £200m we spent in January has hardly had a sniff of any action, and have just given a player a 9year £500k per week contract is a piss take.
It’s becoming an annual event that our first choice elite player option has no interest in joining. Might be an idea to try and understand why ? My guess it’s not hard for the rival clubs to smear us in their negotiations and the draw of Pep when he is close to leaving is not the same.