by nottsblue » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:54 pm
Interesting how the media are portraying this as a £142m transfer. It is not. It is £105m with the balance made up in "achievable add ons", whatever they may entail. But because the dippers are the selling club, their pals in the media will try to make the deal look as good as they can. Bit like when Sterling was apparantly £49m, rather than the £44m with 20% going to QPR, making it £35m to the dippers, which they then spent on Benteke!
This is a terrible loss for the dippers. He was their best player and though they have a big fee for him, it will take a big fee to buy a replacement, if they can get one. And when Can fucks off in the summer for nothing that's two influential players to replace, without adding to the squad. Happy times