Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
Ziyech is only costing Chelsea between 30-40m.

Seems like a bargain in today’s market really.
Yeah not bad value, other clubs seem to be able to identify these guys why can't we. Instead we went and paid 72 million for Pepe (which apparently Lille were happy to accept because they thought he wasn't worth that much) and stagger the fee over who knows how many seasons.

What's worse is that he hasn't settled at all and that we actually needed to spend money on defenders at the time, if we could have signed someone for the price Ziyech is going for (£33.3 million potentially rising to £36.6 million) we'd have had about £40 million to spend on a defender.

The whole transfer policy is so flawed at this club, either we go too cheap and sign nobodies or if we do buy big we overpay for players that aren't worth the money, we don't even spend the money in the right places.

We could have signed Ziyech last summer but had no interest.