supercity88
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I didn't say any of that.
I didn't say to just bid £50m straight away. If you read back, I doubt you will.
However, at this stage why drag it out any longer? We've bid £30m and £40m and their valuation is £50m. By all accounts we are willing to bid again so our next bid will be between 40-50m. Why not just bid the 50m now? Yes it's easy for me to say as it's not my money but I just think that the £10m difference won't throw a spanner into our other transfer plans; if we're willing to bid £40m for a player we knew was valued at £50m and possiblt bid again then for the sake of the difference I doubt it'll be a hinderance to us.
I in no way was misleading to anyone, that was a very odd way to look at this things. Not everything everyone does has a sinister motive, sometimes it can be taken at face value which was merely asking an a fair question with reasonable and fair reasoning. Although, I imagine you looked at who posted and not what was posted given your nonsensical response.
There's not a limitless pot and we're much better to take our time on this considering we're the only club bidding for the player. We know it's £50m so we can hold off and make that bid when we have heard back from other targets. Wolfsburg may be willing to negotiate on De Bruyne's fee. He might hand in a transfer request so they might have to.
If we're seen as just going through the motions and upping it £10m every other day up to £50m then we reveal to other clubs that we'll pay whatever they ask so they may as well hold firm. If we go quiet for a while and let time tick by, we can play hard ball with Wolfburg and do negotiation there. They can't then point to Sterling and say "well City paid up there, so let's be demanding here as well".
When is pre-season? Is it tomorrow? We still have time to get things done prior to the team returning. Our first game in OZ is on the 21st July I believe. Until mid July we may as well bide our time. Sterling isn't going anywhere else so there's no rush.