Bought Dinho when he was 28. Nice little short term solution there. Most elite CBs stay world class well into mid 30s and Koulibaly is an absolute physical specimen. That's a solid 5 years. That's not short-term in football. Besides 10 yr plans rarely ever work out in football.
Then we need to change our strategy. We broke our transfer record for Laporte and now he's worth his weight in gold. We're not getting the next Kompany for a pack of crisps. This is not the time for bargain-hunting because we can't do speculative transfers for this position anymore. Whoever we sign has to be absolutely world class from day 1.Comparing apples and oranges. We didn't smash our transfer record to get Dinho. It's price that's the issue and funds which are not infinite.
Getting a 28 year old is absolutely fine. Koulibaly is one of the very best defenders there is. At the right price he would brilliant, however the club isn't going to throw outlandish sums since it's clear that's not our strategy.
Comparing apples and oranges. We didn't smash our transfer record to get Dinho. It's price that's the issue and funds which are not infinite.
Getting a 28 year old is absolutely fine. Koulibaly is one of the very best defenders there is. At the right price he would brilliant, however the club isn't going to throw outlandish sums since it's clear that's not our strategy.
We're not paying 100 million for a 28 year old defender, regardless of how good he may be.
Ushited pay that because Eddie Fourplanks is a horrible football CEO and they get absolutely scammed in the market.
Yes, things aren't as great as they were last season and the one before that, but we need to stop flapping and calling for short term solutions.
We'll start the bidding at £60m, then pull out when it goes over £70m,
Surely Txixi realises by now we've got too pay the going rate if we want the best, I mean if slabhead cost £85m, then £100m for a far superior player is a no brainer
We're not going to break our transfer record by 40 odd million signing a 28 year old centre half in January, guys. That's the very definition of panic buying. We'll be fine once Laporte returns anyway.
If that comes down to around 60-70 mill, Txiki might have a go.
When we paid 30m for Fernadinho people thought we were off our heads, crazy money they said!Comparing apples and oranges. We didn't smash our transfer record to get Dinho. It's price that's the issue and funds which are not infinite.
Getting a 28 year old is absolutely fine. Koulibaly is one of the very best defenders there is. At the right price he would brilliant, however the club isn't going to throw outlandish sums since it's clear that's not our strategy.
We aren't buying. Our foreign quota is full, we can't move anybody out in January.