Spot on, hopefully the first of many signings of this type of player in that kind of price range - we’ve tried spending stupid money on mostly dross, and look how that ended up.
Let’s buy and develop decent young players who should only...
Most players in this situation with options will go for the glamour move. They won't be concerned about getting game time, it's all ego and $$$ and not cold football logic.
We're not going to win in the majority of these cases. No harm in...
At the end of the day he's joining a Champions league club led by his former manager and owned by the biggest donut in sports who will hand him an 8 year 200k a week deal. At least its not United
A big pull apart from the money huge length of contract in the champions league would have been working with maresca again and no doubt cole Palmer who the would have played at city
We threw our hat into the ring obviously a longshot we move on
Exactly. It is quite urgent actually - no time to lose and all tha'
Next season we need to see real progress on the pitch and the friedkin group need to do their bit to help make that happen this summer. Not future windows - NOW...
…..I think he’s genuinely sad to be leaving. We can be cynical about his salary but there were tears when he left the pitch against Soton. He’s been here a long time, his family might be very settled. At the end of the day, though, he’s a...