I believe that TB did everything to keep Cucurella and Caicedo and they were always planned to stay longer. But as has been proven, if you have any confidence in your overall plan, when somebody offers silly money, it would be absolutely crazy not to take it and reinvest in it.
And I wonder if...
With the cost of strikers these days, £35 Million seems a reasonable investment to get a striker line up of Pedro, Welbeck, Ferguson and Undav (and not a false 9 in sight) :wink:
Now I've always been an optimist, but I believe the club will be saying to Moises you're 21 years old with your whole career in front of you and the next 1-2 years development will define you as a player, make sure you are working with the coach who is best at developing young players.
And to...
I'm not sure where the idea of him wanting more say in recruitment came from, unless I missed something ?
I'm sure I heard him say that our method of recruitment was new to him, and I mentioned on another thread that RDZ letting his own recruitment specialist go tends to point to the opposite...