Reports are saying Madrid are offering 100 million euros + 20 million add ons. If he moves for that amount then questions need to be asked, unless he rejected us but we are too embarrassed to say it.
Questions need to be asked? 120m? If you're saying that based on the idea that he would've been our only signing of the summer then yeah I would've expected us to be able to foot the bill considering we had been ''saving'' for him or even just as a summer where we spend big on one player from a position of power. But if you are saying this as in ''we should sign Bellingham and then another 2 midfielders, a CB and RB to fix our problems or else questions need to be asked'' then I have to ask you what are you smoking?
Like I said before, the whole Bellingham fiasco is something FSG needs to be held accountable for, but with that said, expecting us to sign Bellingham and 2 or 3 more quality players during the summer is just unrealistic regardless of if FSG is cheap or not. That's basically around 300m if not more that you're asking for to be spent all in one summer, just on transfer fees. I don't even think Chelsea or City have done that in one summer (I would have to check) and we don't have oil daddies like they do.
Basically, FSG put themselves in a corner with this whole Bellingham story. They were either stupid and postponed the midfield investment until we basically found ourselves in the current situation where we need 2 or 3 midfielders in one summer which in turn completely puts the idea of spending 100m on one player out of the question OR they were dishonest and never intended to bid for him in the first place and were using the story to justify not spending money with the results of this ''theory'' being the same...we need 2 or 3 midfielders in one summer before we even start looking at other positions in the squad.
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