From GFFN quoting the fabrice article Personal term agreed? Hawkins understands that personal terms would be no issue if Diakité were to move to the newly promoted Premier League club. Sunderland are keen to recruit the Lille defender, and the interest in moving to the English top flight is reciprocated by the centre back. Nevertheless, the Black Cats will have to meet the €40m asking price before any move can take place.
Agreed, PIF is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi, the financial arm of the Saudi government, they could not care less about getting their money back, they want sportswashing and to benefit their state The money being talked about is peanuts to them They own 4 clubs in Saudi, they all finished in the top five of the league last year Oh, the government also own the league(of course)
He’s also said in his article that talks are intensifying with us, if that’s the case then surely we are trying our best to get it tied up asap
Quite an expensive fee given he's not really showed his quality in the last 2 seasons or so. He did look very exciting when he first came through though so I suppose that does get priced in but I wouldn't have him at that price.
Diakite is very very close Bournemouth apparently out the race personal terms aren’t an issue they want €40 mil and talks are intensifying between us and Lille according to ITK on here we’ve bid around €34 now Xhaka likely staying at bayer
Lauriente having medical then watching the lads friendly Diakite is happy to come to us but Lille want 40m euro and we’re pushing to do it