Think that having an actual quality footballer in Baines playing behind him helped a lot.
I’m not taking anything away from pienaar… I loved him … he also had a top quality arteta just inside …
Would have been interesting to see how n’diaye and...
No we had him on trail at 15 or 16
Then had an opportunity when he was 17 I think before he went to red bull or whenever he went and started scoring hat tricks in the CL… 3m apparently
Steve Walsh didn’t want him or actually I think steve...
I’m choosing to forget that he could have had Haaland for like 1.5m and then again for 3.m and turned him down twice
Must have needed to coin to put toward the 57m he spent on Klassen and bolasie
12.6m is not “ a lot for Alcaraz”
It’s one of the lowest fees we have paid for a player in years
Less than
Obrien
D’diaye
Mcneil
Mikylenko
Garner
And about the same we spent on chermiti
I’d more worry that if they’re true then Branthwaite is leaving.
Stones wouldn’t join us to sit on the bench, he’s absolutely top class, he’d want guaranteed first team football prior to the World Cup.