What ETH is doing isn't too disimilar from what Conte is doing by getting players who are already familiar with his style of play. I mean, we could, in theory have multiple players with direct links to Inter in Perisic (already signed), Bastoni, Martinez and Eriksen join the club.
Honestly crazy the fee they are asking for him. Especially considering the bargain price they are getting for Bergwijn. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was above Raph on our list but we moved on once Ajax refused to be reasonable. We did have ITK we were in negotiations for him a few days ago.
But Ajax have always been like that. They sell their assets for huge prices.
But €70 mil for a player who, whilst talented with potential, only scored 8 league goals last season is still a bit crazy even for them.
Yeah it is, but they sold haller so maybe they don’t want him to leave yet?
Gravenberch is joining Bayern for €18.5m
Really in the current market, seeing as he is considered quite a hot prospect, is being integrated into the Brazil national team as well as the current market being what it is, i could see a price of around 30/40 mil euros being about right. Anything above that is crazy money.
Good- let the silly twats overspend on overrated players. That’ll keep them preoccupied from actually figuring out how to climb out of the shit hole they’ve built for themselves
I think it's the English club tax. Fees from European clubs are lower
There's the English club tax and then the tier above is the Man Utd tax.
Agree, I also really don't see Utd spending £130/40 mil on De Jong and Antony. like you say, i think our one bargaining chip here (if we decide to go for him) is Bergwijn, im sure our interest only comes precisely because of their interest and us believing we may be able to get a good deal for him. Just like we are not going to be spending 65 + mil on Raphinha, we wont be spending near that on Antony.
