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O.Spurcat said:
All managers want more money and to be bringing new players in. There's nothing wrong in pleading for more funds from your board of directors, if truth be known then managers are doing it all the time.
However, there are "proper" ways of going about this, and it's a poor show from Mourinho to be doing it in this manner and only increases the dislike felt for him.
There was a time when I privately quite admired him and had some respect for his achievements in the game. Now I find myself viewing him as a bitter person who can't take it when things are not going his way. His constant stroppy behaviour endears him to no-one and a great institution such as Manchester United should have a manager who shows more civilised behaviour than Mourinho has.
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This sums up the rumoured opposition to his appointment by the likes of Bobby Charlton
 
Effin hell. Liverpool and saints have agreed a £75m deal for Van Dijk. <yikes>
 
Foreign clubs selling to PL teams call the doubling or trebling of expected transfer fees, 'The English Tax'. They know that there's so much money sloshing around that they can make up a stupid figure and some stupid ****er will pay it. It comes from having too much money and no idea what to do with it. Money will corrupt everything, eventually.

A few years ago, when you could make a fortune smuggling in cigarettes from abroad, a couple of blokes I knew from the pub, were at it. They were buying cigarettes in Luxembourg and bringing them back through Belgium, they had distribution sorted in pubs and shops and were making thousands of pounds a day, each. Of course, they couldn't bank it or buy anything large that was legal with it or they would come to the attention of the authorities. One day, I watched them playing pool for £5,000 a frame. It meant nothing to them at all.
 
That's just absolute madness. Football is the only profession in the world where an employee can shave 5 months off their contract, get injured and spend the remaining month sulking and still emerge out of all of that apparently worth more than when they started.

The good news here is that anyone approaching for Toby in the summer will now have to open negotiations at £75m for Levy to even answer the phone to them.
 
remembercolinlee said:
City are gonna be pissed off
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Not at all. They weren't prepared to go higher than £60m. Made that very clear in the summer. Van Dick is good but blow me he's not THAT good. Soton will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Now I wonder if they'd be interested in a French international with experience of PL relegation battles <whistle>
 
Citizen Kane said:
Not at all. They weren't prepared to go higher than £60m. Made that very clear in the summer. Van Dick is good but blow me he's not THAT good. Soton will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Now I wonder if they'd be interested in a French international with experience of PL relegation battles <whistle>
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Simply meant that to me City and United (and to a lesser extent Chelsea) seem to be hoovering everyone up so they stop others getting stronger.
Agree about Southampton laughing all the way to the bank...that is a lot of money for a defender.
 
Roo said:
Wow, a sell on fee that’s more than the combined value of their entire team! <laugh>
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The other Moussa is worth more than that and Rodgers is being very vague about a possible move in January.
Counts as homegrown in England, won't be CL tied because Celtic are in the Europa and being linked with various Premier League clubs.
I can see him going for £20m-odd.
 
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