We’re the richest club in the world and Ed is always banging on about how we can do things financially that other clubs can only dream of so let’s pay Raiola what he wants and offer De Ligt more than anyone else so we get it done.
At £70 million for a long term investment on one of the top 10 centre backs in the world who’ll only get better and make a huge profit on if or when he does go to Barca or Real down the line once he becomes the best defender in the world we’d be crazy not to push it through, if we’re going to stall on things like agents deals and paying more than anyone else then the whole ‘richest club in the world’ thing needs to stop.
Signing De Ligt and Wan-Bissaka drastically improves our defence and with the ages of those two plus Tuanzebe, Lindelof, Shaw, Dalot and Laird we could realistically be set up in defence for the next decade. Move on Bailly, Rojo, Jones, Valencia and Darmian and let’s start thinking like the huge club we’re meant to be.