Guess It is about the money... It is O.K. to pay £59.00 for Keita and loan him back but not for a young talent like Joao Felix...?
Wrong. We didn’t loan Keita back. The transfer didn’t go through until summer 2018, until that point he was still a Leipzig player, we just had a contractual agreement to sign the player at a later date. We were pushing hard to sign Keita that summer but Leipzig were adamant he wasn’t going anywhere, there was no agreement for us to sign him that season to then loan him back. He wasn’t going anywhere that season. Why would we have pushed that hard to sign him, paid as much as we did and then loan him back? He arrived when he did because that was when Leipzig agreed to a departure, and that was only because a release clause was coming into play last summer, otherwise I’d put money on him probably still being there now.
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