Of course you do, their both world class players and also similar in age so be folly not to.
Not sure I agree - forwards have generally always been the highest paid players, much more than defenders.
The market is what it is, we need to decide if we are willing to participate in that market or operate within our own structure. But I fear if we choose to operate within our own structure then winning trophies is going to become even harder than it currently is.
You donāt sell the worlds best player to ārebuildā. What happens when we have another star who is making a huge contribution to us competing for trophies and is looking like one of the worlds top players and wants paying accordingly? We sell again? Thatās what we were doing in the recent history, selling our best players and it didnāt serve us to win trophies then and it wonāt now.
If itās true he wants 400k that isnāt unreasonable, Iād say itās below what heās worth given the wages being paid in football at the moment.
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