And you no doubt thought that as soon as they paid it right, disregarding hindsight?
Which is my point exactly, you and 99% of us thought they were silly, and I think paying more than 15 million pounds for Kagawa now would be silly.
All of your other opinions I totally agree with, price is dictated by many other things, I'm sure Liverpool wanted Carroll for 15m quid but they paid what they had to. Once again to make it clear, I understand all this and completely agree with you.
Fair enough, as I said, I don't really care what fees united spend on players, and don't really understand why football fans get hung up on whether a player is worth this or that.
Sure, it's great to be able to take the piss out of Liverpool for spunking a huge fee on a donkey, but I'd laugh at Liverpool signing a donkey if they spent £15million on him as much as I would them spending £35million. It's the fact that he's a donkey that I find funny, the fee is secondary.
I'm not trying to make you change your mind, nor am I arguing with you, you're entitled to your opinion, I just don't understand why fans care about fees as it's something that's never bothered me.
As I said, £12million or £16million for Kagawa, I don't really care. If he comes here and plays well and improves on what we currently have in our squad then the price, I couldn't care less about.