You're forgetting Haaland has an agent who offered Pogba and Mkhi to City when we were doing really well in the league under Jose?? Us doing well now under Ole would be close to irrelevant especially with a client who's clause can be triggered by any club including the likes of City and Liverpool. A lot of talk now is hypocritical if Haaland left for a measley £65m you'd be berating Woodward like he bombed a building. Despite our last few years we're still one of the biggest clubs in the world we shouldn't have to contort to standards only favorable to agents and reps over the club even Liverpool of 2000s would never do that. We'd be no different to Arsenal who have Odegaard on loan that Madrid will immediately take back the moment he plays well.
Our last summer was poor no sugarcoating but if you genuinely expected us or any other club in general(Chelsea's case is an exception which was caused by factors people are aware of) to go on a spending spree during a pandemic you have yourself to blame. It's not helped that BVB's demands for Sancho were unrealistic if they accepted our £80m plus £15m add ons offer(which was HUGE) our net spend would have exceeded £100m on top of what we spent for VDB only Chelsea would have spent more than us. Let's hope this year they are willing to do business in a more realistic manner
