We either need to pay the £70m they want or move on. All this dallying is such a waste of time, and cringeworthy from us. Leipzig don't need to sell him, they don't want to sell him, so the only way to make it happen is to pay the £70m outright. If we think he is worth it then just f**king pay it. If we don't then move on.
Imagine if Barca or PSG or something came in for Coutinho and we set a concrete fee and they kept trying to lowball us. We'd be livid. Not sure why we keep disrespecting other clubs when we'd never stand for it if the roles were reversed.
We've made an opening offer of just short of 60m. Hardly disrespectful when a clause lower than 50m for him activates next season.
Most reports say it was turned down due to payment structure. We are expected to go in again the start of next week.
Keita wants to come here and I've seen today that apparently he has turned down city.
I'm no FSG fan, quite the opposite in fact, but I'm very confident this deal will go through and if it does, bloody fair play to them.
I didn't think we would make an offer until we atleast got sakho, Moreno, Markovic and Sturridge off our books.
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