Leaf, Maguire is an example of overpaying. Zaniolo for 50m is another example if he goes for that. Havertz for 80m. Werner for 60m. The clubs paid too much money for them.
You see, the transfer market is not like the grocery store, the values of players is negotiated. You act like CDK has a price tag on him. In markets where prices are negotiated, comparisons are used to establish price. My use of Maguire is an example, but I have offered many others, but you want to pretend this is just about Maguire.
Which is why I used the example of the Porsche to explain my very basic, mundane point. I genuinely don't understand why you can't comprehend my point. I like the GT3, but I will not overpay for it.
It's not a red herring, it's fucking normal. Like... If I go to a store, see a nice white tshirt, and say "oh I like this" and then look at the price tag and it says 350, I can still like it, but not at 350. If it goes on sale for much less, then great I'll buy it. If some dolt pays 350 for it, let him. A shirt can he nice, but not 350 nice. It's the most basic thing that people do in life and you are acting like I'm in some defensive jujitsu when I'm applying the shit that people do all the time, in life.
"I like that thing, but not for x amount."
Now you don't see where CDK fits? You said reports point to us clearly wanting him. So, same reports point to CDK's versatility and role as our CAM as the point of him coming here.
It's not bad faith, it's because you have assumptions that if Brugge say 40m, we have to pay 40m. If Leeds want to pay 40m, fucking let them.
And it's the transfer market, comparisons are how prices are created, they aren't mystical generated from the air, so acting like making comparisons is absurd is weird.
The only nonsense is the disconnected logic you are offering to somehow make walking away from a player because you don't agree with the price quoted as some horrific failure. It's the most basic principle of economic transactions since humans bartered with each other.
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I was thinking more in the line of the van Basten and Gullit of R&B.
