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Sadly that’s not how many look at it, whether footballers or anyone else. Always about wanting more.

No

That :laugh:

I think he thought he'd found a smart-arse way round it with exceptionally long contracts and consequent long amortisation periods.......but failed to realise anyone not performing on one of those deals quickly becomes a millstone and strangles any future business they want to do....and now they...

He did - written by his shyster agents I think (not sure PBOBE would be prepared to deal with them again based on some comments he made at the time)

Think it was more us telling him to stay away until the window closed........

Problem is for them he isn’t the only player on a stupidly long term contract and a massive wage that isn’t performing - their recruitment and contract strategy appears to be coming back to bite them on the arse much quicker than any of us hoped. They’re going to be forced into selling academy...

Marc Cucurella Marc Cucurella He went to Chelsea For the money And can go **** himself

Klopp definitely taking the piss… https://www.thisisanfield.com/2023/12/my-god-were-we-lucky-jurgen-klopps-cheeky-dig-at-caicedo-and-lavia/

No, often not. Simply a % of any future sale.

Spot on. There’s a knock-on effect for the player as well as not getting minutes - for players like Trossard for example, whilst he could probably have got a move to a ‘big’ club, there’s every chance his world cup prospects would have been impacted through lack of game time (or at least not...

Too busy drop-kicking balls into each other’s faces :laugh:

Passing to a teammate 9 times out of 10 is entry-level stuff if you cost £62 million quid :D

Booked (took him slightly longer than Bissouma today)

They still talk about Rod Gullett

Would be an extra word to remember, so they dropped Marc

:lolol::lolol::lolol:Not a hope 37m was ever the tag….

So, made a few mistakes early on learning the ropes and evolving from a lower division team, but now getting it mostly right (and in some cases fantastically right), yet you know more about what will (or won’t) work than a successful billionaire businessman and lifelong fan and his best in the...

I’ll happily boo and ***t that has a go at him.