Nobody is expecting the world to end. The timings of this nonsense and the sheer Hollywood of the three imposters is beyond a joke. Anybody with a modicum of common sense will know that the lad was used for a purpose. We may have wanted him, but clearly not enough to pay the release clause, that we would definitely have known was the Bilbao way.
I don't think people have an issue with paying above a players true value ( whatever that is), but in fellaini's case we could have forced Everton into accepting a lower fee than we eventually paid which is silly really. I don't see why people keep comparing it to the Herrera case.
We were going to negotiate taxes with Bilbao?
He has to face the fans of a club btw that only accepts players that are born in the Basque country. This isn't even like Barcelona with Catalans because Barcelona buy foreign players. Bilbao only buy Basque. Bilbao is like the Basque national team. Herrera will be treated as if he betrayed the Basque nation. We've properly done him over.
I would suggest that on Transfer Day, a player is worth what a club is prepared to pay for him. Last night, that was clearly correlated to progress in the Fellaini transfer. This is what I am mightily pissed off about. Shitting on a player who now has to regain the affections of the Bilbao fans is not what I would call ethical.
According to AS they were the three lawyers who worked on getting Martinez out of Bilbao to Bayern and were brought in as intermediaries by United to make the deal happen.
Common sense dictates that they were on the payroll.
Apparently they were the lads that Bayern used to close the Martinez deal. The middle men of the transfer who we allegedly hired but then claimed we knew nothing about when it went tits up.
You make valid points, but I think you are missing many.
We won't go back for him, he was simply used as a failsafe. Utter shite way to operate in my opinion.
Not going to happen. He's the Glazer's man, and everything he's been doing will have been in accordance with their wishes. You think they've just sat in Florida all summer having no interest in transfers?
That's not really over-paying in the way that the like os City and PSG do though. They just pile straight i with a silly load of cash and wall away with their man. We spend so long trying to penny pinch and umming and ah-ing over deals that we end up getting screwed over.
Does it matter? In any structured deal we're still paying £4m more than what we would've done if we'd done the deal 4 weeks ago. That's 16.66666% more than the original release fee.
It matters a lot if the buyout clause was all up front in cash, but this deal can be staggered.
He'll play in their next game if fit. Why wouldn't he?
Three lawyers from Bilbao: Guillermo Gutiérrez, Álvaro Reig and Rodrigo García (of Laffer abogados).
It is not really about the overspend, we should have popped his release clause, had him for a bit of pre-season with us and playing. Transfer day would have been much more civilised and structured.
Jesus Christ. Ramp it up lads. United, trampling roughshod over the small nations of the world, phone the UN.
I am. It's nationalism, and more defined within Iberia. Martinez to Bayerm was ok, if he had gone to Real there would have been a few more pissed of Basques.
They dont take it well when a player tries to get a move.
Do we really need to stagger £27m, are we that hard up? feck a duck!!
Its business. Bilbao would have done a deal if United offered more. I'd like to see some examples of mad Basques hanging players who were caught in transfer tugs. They seem to have a funny image on here.
It doesn't really matter when we pay it if we still have to pay it.
As has been said in this thread. If we ran away from Herrera over €6m and we're paying Everton and extra £4m for Fellaini there is no defending anything. You can make up all the little scenarios and try to defend the club all you like but sometimes logic is more important than sentiment.
