Setting a fixed value you won't go above for a player as a club time sounds great in principle, in reality it means if you've misjudged the market place then you risk ending up missing out your primary and secondary targets.
Truth is overpaying for players is not what gets a club in a mess, it's overpaying on wages that does.
Check out our overall spending and what we recouped from sakes under moshiri up until the point we got in a financial mess. Net spend was actually pretty low surpassed by most teams in the league - what killed us was offering salaries like we had the income of the rs. Mina, Iceland, Williams, Bolassie, Allan, etc yes we overpayed on fees for most, but the killer was we then paid them commensurate salaries according to the fees - Iceland was on around 30-40k at the swans - cos we paid so much for him we then upped his wages to around 130-150k, Williams similarly went onto around 100k pw from around 30.
Pay Lyon what they want, pay city what they want - it won't really do much to us - as long as we don't suddenly throw 130k offers to Fofana and Mcatee.
Forest for example will spend big on fees over the odds even, but on wages they had MGW and Elanga on 80 and 60k PW.
Under moshiri it seemed like he had this idea that spending huge fees has to have huge wages attached almost like that made the player more valuable or better by doing so.
Fofana and Mcatee should both be players we match whatever offers they have it ideally exceed them in order to narrow down competition. IF we want to genuinely build a team which can progress being too rigid on valuations isn't the way to do that.
