Manchester United will pay approximately $116 million for the French midfielder, who passes Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo as the world’s most expensive player.
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“But he hasn’t improved a bit in the last two seasons”.
“He is going to be a top player for years to come and he will make a big difference to United’s title chances”. He must be convinced by the future at United. Wow, the fee, well that is how football is nowadays.
The deal then sparked a merry-go round of signings, with Everton spending £12m on Stones’s replacement in Ashley Williams from Swansea and the Swans then picking up Atletico Madrid striker Borja Baston for a club-record fee.
“Other clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players”.
The atmosphere around the club will also be important as Houllier pointed out that the Frenchman won’t be at his best week-in-week-out, therefore Manchester United would have to take care of their record signing. Yeah, I remember watching him and he was a very leggy individual. Chelsea can’t do much worse than past year and will be aided by the fact Eden Hazard seems to have decided he wants to play soccer again under new coach Antonio Conte. But he refined his skill. Everyone spoke in Italy about how good he is and that is a testament to how well he did over there. “If you ask me if I think it is a lot of money, I think football is insane, the market has become insane”. “It’s the first time I’ve worked with such a number of players because I’m used to working with 20 plus the keepers, and we have in the squad 23 plus the keepers”.
Mourinho responded to both Wenger and Klopp by saying their comments were “not ethical”, insisting he would never speak about another club or player.
The England global has been an integral part of United’s side since Sir Alex Ferguson’s days in charge.
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Quite simply, these are the times we are living in and while Arsenal fans would admit that both players are highly promising, the fees are downright ridiculous.
