Went to a team that was CL finalist, has a proper structure and actually has a legit chance to challenge the league. It is sad but true.
Paulo Dybala
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Juve weren't going to swap him for Lukaku and pay his wages for us ffs .
Now the money is in their pocket instead of tied up on the Belgian plus his waves they're able to ease him out the door.
The debt is not the problem. Its just about running a business. Players are seen as assets. If something is perceived to be wrong with an asset, they will not buy the player. The same happened with Perisic over £5m.
We preferred Inter's money rather than swap deal is another explanation.
Maybe so. Help me out since I'm not as clever as you Bubz. Why would a top player be swayed by a manager having had an undistinguished international career for the same country they play for?
Guardian reporting personal terms agreed...
We've spent £145m this summer, how on earth are we skint? Please think before you type
We were also willing to write off a 75m fee to do a straight swap for Dybala. What we apparently drew the line with was another player causing disproportion in the wage structure, 15m in Agents fees, complex image rights and yeah the player not being 100% convinced he even wanted to be here
It's nothing to do with a transfer budget at all
He might also be thinking down the road if Poch goes to Real Madrid he will take him with him.
Please stop this.
Exactly.
Of course Spurs are an attractive proposition from a football standpoint, if they can agree the financial side it will be a worthy gamble for them. It would have been a gamble with us as well.
They have a better business man in Levy?
Or it's just an excuse to keep us fans on side to say 'hey look we tried'. It's rubbish we'll have spent just over £120m net the past 2 seasons, that's no where near enough for a club our size that has so much that needs doing to the squad. We're run by a set of clowns who don't know what they're doing.
I'm thinking at Juve to where Sarri doesn't want to give him and shot and Juve is offering to subsidizing his wages
It's also a gamble Spurs can probably afford to take, whereas our gambles in recent years have lumbered us with the likes of Sanchez already
Nice gesture from Juve to help out with the wages and a good move for Dybala and Spurs. Worked out pretty well for all parties.
They have reached the same stage we got to wages agreed but stuck on the same agent fees and image rights, be interesting to see what happens from here.
We never agreed wages. The club briefed that his wage demands were too high.
As far as i understood the wages werent an issue it was image rights and the massive agent fee.
I think that was just a face saving brief.
It was wages too. He wanted to be one of our biggest earners.
If the move to Spurs goes through then yes, it's obvious the whole thing was pure bollocks from the club because he just didn't want to come here at all.
Either way it does read like we were unwilling to spend any more money, fair play to spurs if they pull it off
Honestly think he could turn Spurs into title challengers...
I'd say it's pure bullshit quite frankly. The club trying to save face because he didn't want to join us. Spurs are arguably a more attractive proposition for him right now, especially with Poch at the helm.
Yh exactly, we already have the league's highest earner who sits on the bench.
Dybala is not what we need, we need to address our obvious weaknesses (RW and CM) and not just throw in another 10 who will be shunted around the pitch to try and get the best out of him.
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Move is off what the feck 
We've sold Lukaku and not replaced him. That's a 75m net spend. You really think that's good enough to catch back up to Liverpool and City?
For one of the richest clubs in the world that's a pathetic sum, especially when we're in need of heavy investment.
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Ohhhhh snap!
All Juve have done in unsettle one of their best players in all of this.
All Juve have done in unsettle one of their best players in all of this.
Much a do about nothing
Is his account hacked or what?
Knew it, as did a lot of fans mind..
Something incredibly dodgy going on and I am glad United pulled out.
What's the point in 65 million quid when you can't spend it on Lukaku?
Collective sigh of relief.
And as we hit the 10,000 post. It's over, fin.
Although I'm pleased about this cause he would of been an amazing signing for them it still just goes to show that we could of signed him considering Di Marzio stated Juventus were already getting weary of the deal with Spurs and would of much preferred to sell to us in return for Romelu Lukaku. I honestly believe we could of got him and it will annoy me that we didn't reactivate this deal.
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