Bollocks to him, he looked shit on youtube anyway! Still, should leave the way open to Lamale if spurs get him surely? Plus he's much more of a goalscorer than Willian which is what we really need imho.
As soon as the newspapers started saying we were close to signing him, you knew we weren't close at all and there would be problems.
Daily post were saying we'd bid £5m and Granada want £12m.
Imho, with the difference in valuations, and the player prefering to move to madrid, don't think its gonna happen to be honest.
Luis suarez isn't even on 70k is he? Nor are a lot of our players i expect. The problem with us offering that kind of money to a young player with a lot still to prove is other players in our squad will look at what hes earning and want wage increases.
Just getting cole off the books would free up a hell of a lot of money.
But its the system most of the rest of the world uses. Barcelona have had enormous success with it, and pep hasn't seemed to have minded working under it.
Its not fucking rocket science. And as for the tactics bit, what the hell has that got to do with anything? They employ a manager and coaching staff to understand that for them.
Except we went on to have our best season under rafa after he left.
Plus pako didn't take training, he was a fitness coach, so he was in charge of the players fitness, rafa always over saw training himself.