that deal looks weird to me as the fees seem massively inflated yet surely would make more sense to make the fees lower than normal and just keep the difference (reputedly £15m ) the same .
dunno - it just seems odd at a reputed £75m for Arthur with 30 year old Pjanic going other way for £60m .
It is a FFP fiddle, both players are written down to low figures in both clubs books so it produces a false profit of circa £50m for each club to show as profit. It should be investigated as City were.
ah so that is the answer . I'm glad to see my instincts are still finely tuned on this sort of ****e .
ah right so if Madtid came & offered £50m and City accepted it is definite he would still have gone to BM . PS Morata £56m