With you on that - although as a general rule I don't quibble on fees I also just feel a) we got bent over by Barca & b) either it was a surprise(?!) in which case we should've held out for more or it wasn't in which case there's zero excuse for signing Mario in a panic.
Still think there's a lot of smoke and mirrors around this one.
Definitely
In terms of the fee for me it was written in to his deal he signed last year, rock solid no way we could refuse set price.. Hence why he signed it.
The club fu**ed up, even if they didn't think 100% he was off (I did) then they should have at least planned for the possibility and not have been scrambling around for a replacement with as much prowess as a virgin in a whore house..
How they didn't look at last season and see the impact that one of the world class talents in the game can do for a squad and think we need that impact again, if we can't get the 4th best player in the world go for the 5th.. Not F***ing try to be clever and bring in the 200th and turn him into the 5th again, we do t have time to constantly start again.
Look at this league we are in, probably the most competitive to get a CL place in Europe.. City and Chelsea have two spots blocked off, Utd have shown this summer that they can compete with those twos spending and attracting the top talents (who make the difference like Luis did for us) Arsenal are Arsenal and have started adding those types in the last couple of windows.. Yet we think we can be clever and do it with the next rung (or two) level of players
Tell you what they deserve what they have got
The shame is we don't as fans
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