another successful predictionOriginally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
another successful prediction
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...al-Monaco.htmlAlthough Varandas acknowledged that Gyokeres is likely to depart, he stated that the fee will be much higher than the potential price of £60m plus £10m in add-ons.
He also claimed that Gyokeres is worth more than Matheus Cunha, who joined Manchester United from Wolves for £62.5m.
Varandas said: 'Today, there is a strong likelihood that he will leave. I won't disclose the amount, but the player knows what it is. I can say that Viktor will not leave for 60+10m. He won't leave, absolutely not.
'We have been watching the market and I saw [Martin] Zubimendi, who is six months younger than Viktor, leave for €65m. I saw Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, both forwards but who, in my opinion, do not have Viktor's market value or quality, being negotiated for around €75m.
'Given the demands we consider fair, I believe Viktor could leave – unless he has the worst agent in the world, which is hard for me to believe, because he is one of the best footballers in the world.'
When other big clubs complete their big deals early and some of us scream about the need to do so and not reinvent the wheel, these quotes from the Sporting President makes it self evident why it's a plus and not some silly deft tact to wait till the market has "apparently cooled down", so you can be left alone to dine on the scraps!
We're ready for the season now, all deals done.
I actually quite like Madueke as a player.
But not enough for us to get him.
I think Madueke is likely to be more of a fall back option. If everything else fails then we’ll go rooting around Chelsea’s bins again.
This largely comes down to whether to pay sticker price or negotiate a lower price for a player, I tend to agree that whether we buy the player in June or August probably won’t make a lot of difference to the price. But this is less about poor transfer strategy and more about an ownership that we know doesn’t want to pay what it takes for us to be title winners, therefore we are left sending officials to try and negotiate a price against selling clubs that have the advantage. Even with Gyokeres they clearly don’t feel they have to accept a lower price for him (and that’s why I suspect he will still be at Sporting Lisbon).
It doesn’t help that players like Cunha or Pedro have gone for so much, but ultimately with both Sporting Lisbon and Leipzig it allows them to justify their high asking price rather than actually makes the price go up
The owners paid £105m for one player
Yes but we aren’t after one player, we are after three
and they have made the funds available to get those players, I've no time for criticism of the owners, the money is there and they've made clear statements about wanting the recruitment to happen to get us where we want to be.
It's Arteta and Berta making the decisions that's the issue - all this messing about over Sesko/Gyokeres I don't think is helpful and whichever one we get it will possibly burn some bridges down the line
As for Eze, if we can get him, then get him, no fucking around pls
And you know the funds have been made available how ?
With add ons, the current asking price if we have say settled on Sesko, Eze and Rodrygo is going to be well over 200 million. Most likely closer to 250 million (but for sake of argument we will say 225 million). Add that to the 50 million we’ve spent on Zubimendi, the 10 million plus add ons for Norgaard, the 16 million for Mosquera and the 5 million for Kepa that takes things over 300 million.
I’m sure we’ve been given what the owners consider a generous amount of money along with a wage bill budget, but it’s not a blank cheque. I also doubt we will be able to spend 300 million let alone more than that (I don’t know for a fact but that would be an unprecedented sum).
I also subscribe to Occam’s razor, in this case what sounds like the simplest explanation…the club are negotiating with other clubs to lower their asking price to guarantee we can get in the players we want within the available budget, or that we have a blank cheque and Berta and his ilk are just trying to show off to prove they are able to pull off spectacular bargains.
This rather clashes with Berta’s actions at Atletico Madrid where he paid large fees for players like Joao Felix and Kieran Trippier.
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