Rnd898
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I assumed spending would not continuing at the same rate but still I expected the club would be willing to get good players at decent price like Onana, Vlahovic.
It seems you guys have swinged from overspending (Cucurella/Mudryk/Felix loan) to directly being overly cautious on price. Long term this is a good change just wasn't expecting it to be so sudden.
Yeah, depends on what you consider good I guess. Based on his Juve performances I'd say Vlahovic is definitely not a guaranteed top striker and after our numerous terrible striker deals, the last thing we'd want is another expensive misfit so kind of have to be careful there. We could absolutely get him no fuss if we wanted to, especially now that Juve has been picked as the preferred destination by Lukaku and Juve's bid for the Belgian wanker is dependent on them selling Vlahovic first but the club simply don't seem to want or rate Vlahovic as much as you clearly do.
As for Onana, him I would have taken if possible. Unclear whether Poch decided against pursuing him to continue with Kepa instead (as was reported by the media) or if we tried talking to Onana and he told us he wasn't interested in order to join United. Either way I very much doubt it was the price that was the stumbling block here, it was clearly something else.
Caicedo the whole world knowns would go for atleast 80m+ and there are reports of a verbal offer of 65m+5m offer placed and rejected last week which is same as what Arsenal offered in January.
I kind of expected they'd let Caicedo go for around the same money or at most a little bit more as the Arsenal bid in January because I thought their main concern was not so much losing the player but rather losing him mid-season while they were still going after the European qualification.
There was even some talk of a 'gentlemans agreement' being made between Brighton & Caicedo that he'd be allowed to leave if a fair offer arrived in the summer but now Brighton seem to have got a bit greedy with their £100M+ demands, which has obviously frustrated the player (again).