Originally Posted by
Steveo
The filthy have been showing an interest in him for a while. Ten Hag interested since he was at River Plate. We should have gone in for him this summer. Tug of war now with Chelsea probably too
We were too busy lamenting about Chou Chou allegedly, then went for Melo..
We were apparently monitoring him at that time also, and yes other sides are now rumoured to be interested, I think we'd have to make a horses head in the bed offer in January, one to rescue our season and make a great stride forward in securing our future, two because if we wait until the summer, the other suitors will likely be better placed to land him, we have an obvious need and the space for a midfielder of his abilities right now, that can't be said of the other suitors, we are also in the Champions League last 16 right now, as are his current club, as are Chelsea, so we could take the filthy out of the equation with a January move as they aren't in the Champions League, if we wait until the summer, it could be a different story
The situation with suitable players and our chances of signing them and who might land them ahead of us next summer who'd have been a very poor third of fourth choice for any player this summer confirms the absolute need to keep investing in the squad and building and strengthening while you're on top and shows how desperately poor in this respect FSG have been and in failing to appreciate the mechanisms and potential ups and downs of the market one of their businesses (as they view it) a business worth 4bn plus if they were to sell it, is in Edit: It makes them looks like absolute rank amateurs, despite all the other excellent work at increasing revenue streams they have done, and the narcissism and idealism of their 'model' trying to do moneyball in football, a market they don't understand, foolhardy
Last edited by Nineteenx; 4th November 2022 at 03:01 PM.
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