Except nobody offered 80m .... you see the problem ... we can ask what we want 80m, 100m, 130m but if nobody wants to pay so what? and remember Eriksen needs to sign with whoever makes that offer, he made it very clear in the summer that meant just two clubs neither of whom were interested.
Poch said that he convinced Eriksen to stay over a private dinner ... so was leaving for this imaginary 80m ever seriously an option, probably not.
To get Eriksen for 11m have him for 6 great years on ludicrously low wages and then sell him at a profit ... yeah that's good business. Should we have sold at peak value in the summer of 2018, yes we should but that's an easy thing to say now, at the time very, very few of us were advocating selling him, go back to page 240 and see the nutters who were demanding Levy pay him >250k a week ...
I'm amazed Levy got 17m ... now just add another 53m to that and buy us someone decent