Length of contact has a bearing on valuation, if you recently just signed a new 5 year deal, your club will ask for more money
And that leverage is what your team gets in exchange for the extra money. BUT ..60k a week… it wasn’t a TON of extra money. And Moises contends that the “reasonable” nature of the selling price was discussed as part of this agreement.
See, the whole “valuation” argument is an admittance that there were agreements in place around that signing not put on paper. So the whole argument that that suddenly isn’t a thing in football needs to just stop.
Do we have reference for what Moises considered “reasonable”? Well, yes we do! Because he balked at the 70m valuation in January.
That is why we have this fake mystery bidder now, because they are trying to invent a crux for defending their actions by claiming multiple bidders in the same region.
As we ALL know, Saudi teams love to keep their bids for players. It isn’t like they love to be attached to a player in the press at all… Brighton totally was not being shady on that one.
A sole bidding team was a worst case scenario for Brighton here, and they have always known that.