bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
What do we think Mata is on at Utd? 150k? 100k? Whatever it is, it's a liveable wage even for the most outrageous footballer.
So with three weeks left, he can either join us now for 50k more as you suggest or sit and wait to see how many minutes he gets in the few games before the window shuts. At Utd. Under Jose. 60/70k fans a week. European football.
Or.
He can see if anyone else, playing European football, comes in for for him. A club maybe that isn't as big as a project as us. This might be his last big move/decision after all.
Why wouldn't he wait a few more weeks? Why would he rush?
It isn't all about money for those who already have enough.
Would he be more likely to make a decsion quicker if the offer is us matching his United contract of 150k per week was what we suggested, or if we offered him 200k pw mate, genuine question?
Carvalho by several accounts is not convinced about our ambition/the project etc, say we are offring him 80-90k, you think he may become more convinced with a 150k pw offer on the table?
and what we regard as makiing sens mate in terms of wages etc is compeltely different to the world they live in.
and it's the reason someone like Rooney would never take a pay cut to say 150k pw to come 'home, even though for us that salary would be enough to last a lifetime after a 6 month spell