With regards to Negredo, I've heard of him for quite a few years now as his name has always been linked in the transfer rumours to various top clubs, sort of like a Phillipe Mexes but I'd always assumed due to the fact that no one (not just us) had gone in for him for years meant that it was just the usual false media hype and hot air surrounding any player who goes on a scoring streak.
Clearly a big mistake though and when you look at the current going rate for top top quality strikers (50 million +) and our recent difficulty in procuring one it just makes it all the more painful. A real diamond hidden in plain sight who was available at a fair rate for so many years - I would question the scouting but then again it wasn't just us who failed in this regard. Oh well, not much point lamenting on it too much ...... nothing we can do now ..... .he's going to be at City for the foreseeable future and bang in 20 goals + every season. Just need to make sure we don't slip up like that again.
Googled Griezmann .... seems a bit meh. One for the future I guess.