But if reports are to be believed, Sissoko is actually a player that he wanted.
Then why wait until the end of the window? Everyone knew he was available for £30M as soon as the Euros finished
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But if reports are to be believed, Sissoko is actually a player that he wanted.
'Man of the match - Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle)
The Newcastle skipper was a phenomenal force in midfield - he provided an assist, won the penalty and could have scored two more'
A quote from the match report on BBC web page for Newcastle's last match of the season when they beat us in a match that had no meaning to them.
Then why wait until the end of the window? Everyone knew he was available for £30M as soon as the Euros finished
Because nobody else was going to bid 30M and we were willing to wait on Newcastle to have to lower the price once that became clear. Once Everton hit the 30M at the last minute we lost bargaining power and had to match.
Newcastle gambled that someone else would come in with a solid offer, we gambled they wouldn't.
Have we "done a Leeds" yet?
It's only a matter of time before the bailiffs turn up
"There used to be a football club over there "
If the manager thinks he's worth £30M surely it would've been better to have him for the first 3 games than fucking around trying to save 5 odd million thoigh
You mean when he was playing for a move away
Real Madrid, Internazionale, Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Everton, Crystal Palace and West Brom were also apparently interested at start of summer along with us but none went over £15m when they wanted £35m for him.Our first offer was, allegedly, £16m. I'm guessing Levy thought he could save much more than £5m.
*Serious liquidation fears*
Did anyone see Lamela evolving into the essential type of player that he is for our system? Or that Dembele would ever find his correct position let alone becoming our "first name on the sheet" player.
What about seeing the immediate impact Dier would have being moved to DM? Or that Ali would break into the first team in his first season in spectacular fashion.
What about Rose and Walker being the two established starting England full backs. Or Wimmer making us question whether Vertonghan should be getting back into the team after his injury.
No... Me neither. Wash the sand out your fannies and have some faith in the manager and stop writing off a player before he's even kicked a ball for us, let alone had a season to settle in and show us what he can really do.
He's wasn't the first name on any of our lists but he's who we've got.
I don't know - he really wanted to join Woolwich, so was clearly willing to play for a worse club.Do you have any sources for these claims that he thinks he's better than us? He'd have to be a real delusional piece of shit to think he's better than a club in the champions league which was competing for the title last year. As I said I think a lot of the bad attitude claims are just social media guff unless you're willing to provide some quotes from sissoko which prove otherwise.
It's rare to see us all so split on a player transfer as we are on Sissoko.