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Happy New Year!
You can’t just bandy the word “sign” about in this thread, it’ll cause chaos...Congrats to the mods, who have won us a trophy. A trophy rating anyway. Must be a sign of things to come...
You bastard!Happy New Year. Wishing you all a fantastic January
Happy New Year. Wishing you all a fantastic January
JJ has tweeted that Lyon are asking for 'More than double our record transfer fee' for Ndombele.
If that is the case then I don't blame us for not pursuing him. No way is he worth £85m+ in his current stage of development.
Interesting, but if you consider the inflation of transfer fees over the last couple of years should we really be surprised? I mean chelsea rate Hudson-Odie at £40 million apparently. If Our scouts and management think he is the player we need then We have a decision to makeJJ has tweeted that Lyon are asking for 'More than double our record transfer fee' for Ndombele.
If that is the case then I don't blame us for not pursuing him. No way is he worth £85m+ in his current stage of development.
Typical posturing from Aulas (Lyon chairman) IMO. He’s a bit of a fantasist. I still remember his antics when we were trying to buy Lloris.
That said, we won’t get Ndombele.
Media reporting Lyon want £72M for Ndombele which pretty much ties in with what JJ is saying, give or take a few quid.
In reality these are the kinds of rates we're now looking at to sign quality players with 10 years left in them, unfortunately.
JJ has tweeted that Lyon are asking for 'More than double our record transfer fee' for Ndombele.
If that is the case then I don't blame us for not pursuing him. No way is he worth £85m+ in his current stage of development.
Sadly, looking at other deals happening in this market, he'll probably get near that sort of fee when he sells him.
We can't compete once players are established, that much is clear.