I totally agree with us refusing to sanction a deal worth c.£95m but with the deliberate standard of refereeing in this country, where full-on assaults are not punished, the likelihood of our going another five games, never mind the rest of the season, without another one of our key players being kicked onto the treatment room for 4-6 weeks is virtually nil.
Many will criticise txiki for this and the Sanchez deals, and god knows I’ve not always been his biggest fan, but I actually think it’s good that we have a line in the sand that we will not cross on transfers.
Maybe we should simply avoid dealing with shithouse English clubs in the future.
As for the refereeing (separate point, sorry mods) it’ll never happen but personally I’d like to see us tell the English fa to fuck off and go and play in Spain.