The Premier League Thread

I think they may get less than Derby. They must feel like we did at this stage, knowing you are going down, just trying to get another 10 points over the line

 

It was always built on sand. It was the Mendes link and it always seemed like he potentially talked his clients into taking reduced terms so they would have a platform for a bigger move later. Because their wage bill when they had the likes of Neves in the championship didn’t make sense. So there was also some potentially shenanigans going on there with potentially more fees going to Mendes one way or another

The klaxon was that massive money bid for the teenage Portuguese striker who’d scored something like one goal ever. Seemed like a higher level Bebe like transfer where it was effectively a big financial transfer at massively over market rate with a large chunk pocketed by agents