You don't buy a player because a rival wants them.
No, you buy them because you desperately need them. As we do with Mahrez.
Desperately needing them, and then watching them go to a poorer rival is what takes the biscuit for me.
VVD took well over a transfer window, Keita ended up having to be done a year in advance for a premium, both Arsenal and Liverpool failed to get Lemar, City failed to sign Sanchez and a second leftback, Spurs failed to sign Martial.
In terms of easiness, we went from nothing to signing Lukaku in a matter of days. Matic was done fairly quickly once they got Bakayoko in and so was Lindelof. Only deal that was hard (and not done) was the Perisic one.
I see your point, and I was (and still am) happy with the Rom and Matic signings.
But how long did it actually take us, as a club, to sign a sensibly aged top CF? It took fecking years, despite us being able to outprice almost everyone, and yeah, LvG is mental, but even still, you'd just think there'd be someone within the club talking sense.
You know, I can't help it, on this topic (Mahrez) my feelings
are negative toward the club. With some transfers I understand that I basically know feck all compared to the management, but every now and then there's a transfer so fecking obvious that you just know it'll be talked about in hindsight as a "what the feck where we thinking" moment...
Hazard, Aguero, Mane all spring to mind. And for me, as it stands right now, this one is the most obvious of them all.
