Metalartin
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Idiot.
Khaldoon was obviously talking about City never holding the European/World record transfer... Ronaldo like money which is the relevance to a La Liga rep being a hypocrite(his comprehension skills are shite for a journalist). Yes we approached Kaka but thankfully it didn't happen so what are you talking about Castles?
The Robinho transfer was only a British transfer record which broke the existing record(£30m) by £2m set 2 years earlier(Shevchenko Chelsea) Liverpool paid £3m more than that for Andy Carroll(£35m) 2 years and 4 months later but he won't mention that.
Then he goes on about individual positions:
GKs
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/tra...spielerposition_id=&altersklasse=&leihe=&w_s=
Ederson was not a world record transfer for a goalkeeper(Buffon held that from 2002) but a British one for one single season(£36m), Pickford cost Everton £25.65m in the same window. Alisson beat the world record and smashed the British one by £20m(£56m). If anything Alisson's fee made way for Kepa's by breaking it so significantly.
CBs
The increase for our CBs was not a massive leap on what came before, look at Ferdinand's fee, is that correct? Shocking if true, all the way back then...
With the sidebacks there is more of a case for we increased the record significantly but we needed quality and experience in a specialised role. Those types of players were never going to come cheap. If anyone tries to do the same they will easily break both records(lb or rb). We paid market price on both.
The argument was about inflation being blamed on the the wrong people, City have proven to have gotten much better at spending well because the teams value is worth more than what we paid for it. You can't make a case we are paying over the odds anymore, not by a long shot.
He's also referencing them as Abu Dhabi funded buys, our press become more pathetic and desperate by the day, they are cracking up.
I was waiting for a response to the interview, not surprised this is the best he could come up with because Khaldoon was measured and accurate... unlike their own work.
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