"The price for Rice was extortionate; an excellent player but £105m is too much, and we got arsenal to pay it"The price for Rice was extortionate; an excellent player but £105m is too much, and we got arsenal to pay it.
The price for Gvardiol was brilliant negotiation, we got him for a good bit less than expected and got him for the start of the season.
Paqueta looks like we negotiated what we thought was a fair price that we were prepared to pay, nothing we could then do about the gambling allegations, completely beyond our control.
Nunes - we offered £47m, they rejected it and have been posturing about £60m. We probably think that’s too high (I say probably because none of us know) and are most likely negotiating that down a bit - if we are then I think that’s sensible, and it will PROBABLY get sorted in the next 3 days
People also forget we snapped up one of the best midfielders in the PL for a snip at £25m very early in the window.
We got Doku for £55m without too much fuss - compared to the average players chelsea have been spending a billion on I am very happy with that purchase
On top of that we persuaded Bernardo, Kyle and Ortega to stay with us.
I think we have conducted our transfer business pretty well this summer, like we always do - just look at our squad, brimming with quality, Pep not looking for quantity
Brighton's players actually perform though. What has Nunes done in his time at Wolves to justify an increase in valuation?
Don't get me wrong, they can ask for whatever they want but I do find it odd when people automatically expect a 25-50% mark-up simply for a player existing.
Not just talking about your comment but across social media over the last week I've seen people saying things like "Wolves bought him for £50m last summer so he's easily worth £70m now." Based on what?
Maybe looking to push Rodri further up, we have seen that already this season and he is a huge goal threat.I would agree. I was responding to needing 'creativity', which is not what Nunes offers.
No idea on the Rice bid, think we all know there was more with that than meets the eye.Are we low balling and trying to bully ?
Simply weird tactics and the Rice bid was just wrong on all accounts, did we ever genuinely want him?
The squad we had in 2018/19 wasn't complete but it was as close as we've got in my opinion.At no point during Pep’s reign have we given him a complete squad. Not once. But they’re best mates so no matter what they fail to provide for him, he can let it slide. He also knows he’s elite at his job and can pull a rabbit out of the hat with whatever players we have, or don’t have. But imagine how tetchy things are going to get when our manager doesn’t have that long-standing friendship with the hierarchy and when our manager can’t adapt like Pep. People assume being City manager is an easy job. Let’s see. We have 13 senior outfield players available. With only 2 injuries.
If we keep on going with this method though, we will probably never sign a top Premier league player ever again. Kovacic seemed to be easy as Chelsea had to have a fire sale, and seemingly were happy to accept a lower fee. Sometimes you have to accept a rival teams fee they've put on a playerLets go the utd and chelsea way and scattergun bids all over the place.Or shall City bid what they think a players worth and if it is not good enough for the selling club walk away.
Flip side to that is a fully rested and fit Kev for the second half of the season.
The rumors at the time were that Arsenal were messing about and paying over 20yrs or something stupid. Perhaps our bid was much more favorable terms and remember at the time it looked like Borges was going to join them so perhaps we were going to forgo a few clauses on that etc."The price for Rice was extortionate; an excellent player but £105m is too much, and we got arsenal to pay it"
100% it was, but he was NEVER going to be sold to us for 85M or whatever we bid, we knew, they knew and Arsenal Knew.
So why bid?
Txiki taking the proverbial?
Very true, this break could do wonders for him, he has looked a very tired man for a long time.Flip side to that is a fully rested and fit Kev for the second half of the season.
At no point during Pep’s reign have we given him a complete squad. Not once. But they’re best mates so no matter what they fail to provide for him, he can let it slide. He also knows he’s elite at his job and can pull a rabbit out of the hat with whatever players we have, or don’t have. But imagine how tetchy things are going to get when our manager doesn’t have that long-standing friendship with the hierarchy and when our manager can’t adapt like Pep. People assume being City manager is an easy job. Let’s see. We have 13 senior outfield players available. With only 2 injuries.