Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Where? How would we know his wage demands if we weren’t in for him?
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[Albion] Nicolo Zaniolo
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deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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If I remember correctly DZB said he likes him and whilst he is within our age requirements he would be outside of our financial structure which I took to mean transfer value.
GT49er
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Because presumably we would make some enquiries (and no doubt have some informal conversations with his agent) before we got to the stage of being 'in for him'.
ConfusedGloryHunter
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- Jul 6, 2011
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So we were in for him but not in in for him?
- May 8, 2018
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From what I read it would have seemingly been c30m euros whilst the UK window was open but £20m euros since it closed.
GT49er
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In a word, no.
We weren't apparantly ever in for him. The recruitment team will have a huge database of players we could be interested in, and are doubtless making enquiries all the time sbout dozens of them. That doesn't mean we were or are 'in for' any of them.
I have absolutely no doubt that the recruitment team will have detailed information, including likely wage demands, about Zaniola and loads of other players most of us have never heard of (and probably never will). The idea that because of gathering that information we're 'in for' dozens - or even hundreds - of players is obviously nonsense.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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He's gone for £18 million and he's on £60K a week, 4 year deal. So Trossard wages and a £10 mill saving.
ConfusedGloryHunter
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- Jul 6, 2011
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I was more just going for the classic Micky Flanagan "out out" vibe.
We monitor hundreds of players which could be phrased as taking an interest in them all (as opposed to actively trying to sign them all).
Or in other words "in" but not "in in".
ConfusedGloryHunter
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- Jul 6, 2011
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Yeah but would we have had half a nation doing fan art for him? Our expectations have hit new heights these days...
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Didn’t realise managers at BHA spoke about targets - need to be careful assuming what people have said is correct. Club won’t be too keen on that. If the 60k wage is remotely true it’s also not true that we couldn’t afford his wages…! So many hearsay stories around always in transfer window time 
Justice
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Didn’t RDZ mention he likes the player although out of our price range, I’m guessing wage wise.
Yep this was the guy.
Johnny RoastBeef
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- Jan 11, 2016
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Yep, 6 moths ago.
Brighton's Roberto De Zerbi denies interest in Zaniolo
Italian manager Roberto De Zerbi was recently asked about transfer rumours linking out-of-favor attacker Nicolo Zaniolo with several Premier League clubs such
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We never took Zaniolo into consideration,” said De Zerbi. “He’s a very strong player and age-wise he’d be eligible to join our side as Brighton look for younger players with high resale value.”
“However, Zaniolo is financially out of reach for us,” he clarified.
um bongo molongo
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Villa are doing some annoyingly good business