Dribble
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The key to this is players (like Mahrez & Gvardiol) who want you, & only you. This way the selling club is left with a player who wants out, & they can't generate an auction by playing off competing clubs against each other.We really are lucky as fans this season. Liverpool fans are going through the kind of mind altering highs and lows here that reveal hypocrisies as short term crutches that turn out to be very difficult to deal with in the long term. Chelsea. Jeez. How many? How much? Is this any different to last time? And Utd shopping in the out of town discount stores, and still running up eye-watering bills.
Despite the Bellingham let-down, everything has been fine. I thought Gvardiol was handled well, people got stressed, but that's what happens when you bluff and put up the facade. The reality was we held a card or two. The noises were never negative to any great extent. Silly stuff. When someone you are in discussion with does something silly, ignoring it and going back to your own business is a very sound approach.
We do need a couple of players here but I trust we'll get them. Paqueta seems ideal, and should be doable, whilst we wait for a couple of other developments to unfurl and align ourselves accordingly.
Good strat, City.
I suppose it's well done Caicedo & Chelsea. It's Brighton's right, but these unbelievable inflationary prices have got to stop. I'm so happy City have never get involved at the highest end of this transfer crap.
CONVERSELY, how else is a team like Brighton to profit from bigger teams asset stripping them, & continue to grow so it doesn't fatally affect them as it's done others in the past? It's a tough one.
If I were Brighton I suppose I'd be doing the same as they're doing now, & reinvesting the money into finding more gems like Caicedo & Mac Allister.