That’s on City, not us.
He was worth £28m last summer and nothing has happened to change that since.
Paying excessive fees to the clubs we are trying to catch up with financially isn’t a smart move.
We aren’t going to break the cartel if we play by their rules.
Given the season he had, £25m is reasonable.
Think clubs have got to start standing up to this, rich clubs stock piling players they don’t need and then flogging them at a profit.
Delap, is a good example.
If the reported £45m fee is correct they can do one, only paid £27m for him last summer.
WC used to be an opportunity to see players you knew little or nothing about, different ways of playing, teams that reflected their own culture.
Now it’s the same old faces doing the same old stuff in the same way.
Many reasons for the general apathy towards the WC, but over saturation is probably the big one.
UCL, UC, conference league, nations league and the club World Cup added an extra 780 games to the calendar last season.
Sounds very dull, but that where we are heading - joyless hard working risk adverse football.
Or they might not.
Point of principle really.
The value of players goes up when they play well, not when they struggle to get off the bench.
Be better for the game if the rich clubs had to live with the consequences of their wild shopping sprees, instead of rinsing everybody else for easy profit.
Unhappy player on big wages.
Somebody will get ripped off, would prefer it not to be us.
All gone very quiet on the settlement agreement #NUFC are supposedly making with UEFA for breaching their financial regulations.