Not many, i'll grant you that, but it's not like we're the only option Betis definitely have this window.
Bringing this back to GLC, or any other player.
Any reasonable chairman would do the following in our current circumstances, where we are desperate for a player to fill a position;
a) negotiate the best price possible. If that means we pay more than we want, fine, make cuts in the cloth in other less pressured areas/players.
or,
b) pursue a more reasonably priced alternative as above and make sure you get him.
What you don’t do is nothing as we did three times. The problem rarely goes away and simply means you need to spend more the next TW as the situation gets desperate and find out prices have gone up.
Try driving past 15 petrol stations because you think the price is too high and see what happens.......
I think it's very tough to call. I mean with Neymar, Coutinho Griezman etc.. all going for insane amounts well over £100m, GLC at £69m is probably about right. Certainly if you look at AWB going to Utd for £50m and Pepe going to Arsenal for £72m. For me GLC is a better deal than Pepe.
Lol, not even close...
Absolutely spot on mate and Ndomble is case in point that we are now willing and in a position to pay big money for players but at the same time that doesn’t mean we can just throw £5-10million pounds around willy nilly. This is a deal that could be at a guess anywhere from £50-75million this isn’t some small deal for an up and coming 18yr old where we could pay £5 mil or £5.5 mil to get the deal over the line, these are big boy deals now and so it is very wise to negotiate and use time accordingly. Ndomble was the priority signing which we got in early, Betis need the money, ESPECIALLY now they’ve just signed Fekir so we hold all the power here and as you say no one id rather have negotiating this than levy. If a deal can be done here it will, BUT as others have said weather we have suitable plan B’s that we can and will move for instead is another very important matter
1,000% spot on. And whilst Levy is good he does come across as a little too stubborn and hard nosed which as you said isn’t always a great quality when negotiating, it is however a good safety net for us as a club not spending beyond our means.
