I like the optimism here, wish I felt some too!
Yeah mate to be honest after yesterday I’m taking it anywhere I can find it haha. If that means going full muppet over Rabiot so be it.
Between the 18m transfer fee and the wages we will need to pay him, he is not going to be cheap. His wages will mean that we have less money to sign others. He is also going to be impossible to get rid off
I don’t think the fee is an issue. The wages maybe. But with all the players we let go and didn’t replace there should be room. Again, if there were loads of players we were linked with I’d be less happy about this. But other than De Jong/Sesko it doesn’t seem we are. Therefore I don’t think the wages will block anything else from happening .
I'd be furious if we were signing a player of Mbappé's quality for £15m if it turned out that PSG were willing to let him go for free. The sheer incompetence of our DOF is astonishing.
Yeah I somewhat agree but I’m at the ‘feck it let’s just get things done’ stage now. At first for example I was super against paying the deferred FDJ wages but now if that’s what it takes to make it happen I’m all for it
From what I understand he's never been in charge of transfers at Ajax and our transfer 'activity' this year shows that.
I dunno everything I’ve read says our scout department had a long list of targets but they were all scrapped in favour of what ETH wants. I find it hard to believe we are linked with so many current or former Ajax if he’s not heavily involved. Regardless, if he’s the driving force or not, I’d imagine he at least has given a thumbs up to Rabiot if it’s got to the stage of having a bid accepted.