Just because someone has a release clause doesn’t mean that clubs will pay that. Like any sale, whether there’s a release clause or not, the buying club can have its own valuation and try and get the player in for that.
Don’t think there’s any other serious bidders for his signature currently at the lesser amount that they want? So it’s a risk for RB too. A bird in the hand now vs next season when there may not be.
United waited a year for Sancho and the price was 25M less than the year before when BD were saying they wanted 100M.
