I'd be very surprised if we offered only £14k for a player we are prepared to spend £6.5m on. He could easily earn that in the reserves of any premiership team.
It's not over until the fat lady sings, or at least until she has done due diligence on his twitter account to see if there have ever been any anti italian tweets made by him going back 20 years!!!!
Hear what you are saying but unlikely that CMS is in the same league as JC. As for BZ, agree, but he's earnt his fortune and has come home. As for the others, difficult to comment with out knowing who was in the market for them.
That said, I hope you are right and he decides to acclimatize...
Errrr. They went to a top flight team and there were the suspicions around third party ownership which may have scared a few of the bigger teams off. Liverpool only signed Mascherano once it had been sorted.
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Depends a lot on how they measure the playing budget. Do they include all the players currently at the club including contracts and any staggered transfer fees or, when they talk about budgets are they only referring to what is available for new players including contracts, signing on fees...