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  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    Fair enough. Fans are fans mate and they can't be held accountable on anything really. As a fan I expect that the club would do his due diligence on a player before even approaching his agent, something that its clear United hasn't done...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    They had multiple offers because Bayern gave him a reasonable salary and they pushed him out swiftly. There was no more 'Oh poor Tel, go on holiday to Amsterdam because maybe you're sad or something'. No they identified the problem early, they...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    If you're referring to myself I think I went to great lengths to show that this issue preceded INEOS and even the Glazers for all its worth. All I am saying is that its time someone puts a stop to it. We shouldn't accept being taken for mugs and...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    Do you really think that Bayern wanted to keep Tel? If so then I assure you they wouldn't have let him go. The difference is that they know how to negotiate a deal and no one believe that they are mugs. Let's take the Sancho deal as an example...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    I don't want to sound like a Glazer's apologist (which I am not, the Glazers are the worst thing ever to happen to the club in the past half a century or so) but as said before this had been happening way before the Glazers bought the club. We...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    It's way older then that mate. Old farts like myself remember us selling Berbatov for 5m. Before that we sold proven English internationals such as Philip Neville and Nicky Butt for 3.5m and 2m respectively. It's shocking that the 4th highest fee...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    we always seem to negotiate from a position of weakness and desperation. Even back in the day when we were selling internationals like Phil Nev, Nicky Butt and Berbatov for a packet of crisps each. Let's just admit that this club is horrible in...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    Things always seem to be more difficult to us as opposed to others. Others get 20m for academy players despite they barely ever played first team football. We constantly sell academy players for less then a million. Meanwhile we're taken for a...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    A 5m break out clause is silly in today's football. We could have gone for a loan to buy fee with a 7m-8m loan fee on top. That would have attracted more suitors (possibly in a league that is better suited for Sancho) + it would have stopped...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    we've got idiot negotiators
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    It seems the fee for Chelsea to return Sancho back to sender is.....5m. Wow
  • devilish posted the thread RIP Big George Foreman in Current Events.
    He was probably one of the top 5 boxers the world had ever seen https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/boxing-legend-george-foreman-dies-aged-76-family-says/ar-AA1BqCcX
  • devilish replied to the thread Kenan Yildiz.
    Nope he's the reverse De Ligt so it should be Ajax now. Damn if only we kept ETH a bit longer
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    We spent 2 summers begging for him to join only to be told, once signed, that actually he wants to play LW and he hates playing RW. The trouble is that we had Rashford as LW and we were desperately in need for a RW. Now we managed to turn an...
  • devilish replied to the thread Jadon Sancho - Chelsea (loan) watch | £5M opt-out fee.
    We accepted a lesser fee so that it would be an obligation to buy rather then a right to buy. That obligation to buy clause made him unattractive to most clubs who weren't ready to commit on a player of such high wage who seem to have attitude...
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