decmancity
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No it isn't simple. You don't force players to stay or you end up like the rags with a bloated squad full of players who aren't interested in being there. Everyone keeps saying Zinchenko wanted to stay, he wouldn't have left he did. He turned down several moves in the past to fight for his place, why change his mind now?Well it is. A team comes in for your player and you quote them higher or else he stays. I think Zin would have been happy to stay hadn't we agreed a fee with Arsenal. We also didn't really need to sell.
If reports are to be believed Bernardo could go for 80m, that's only 5m more than Leicester are quoting clubs for Fofana. Do you honestly think that's fair?
I dont believe Txiki was calling round Europe touting him for sale so perhaps Zinchenko had a call with Arteta and thought yeah i fancy it, Arsenal put in the offer and once everyones had a chat the outcome is that its best to move on. As well as earning himself a nice big wage increase.
What relevance are other transfer fees, this idea that there is some set price for X and not Y is odd.
We got Haaland for 51m, can you believe we sold Jesus for a little under that or what about signing Aguero back in 2011 for a couple million more than Andy Carroll. Is that fair?