Agree mate, seemed like I stead of negotiating we just acted like Billy big bollocks, asking a club what they wanted and paying whatever they quoted us.
No negotiating just trying to act like money didn't matter etc.
Stupid as hell as it meant we set about 6 club records for other teams biggest ever transfers.
To of my head I think Gbanim (25m Mainz) , Bolasie (25m Palace), Godfrey (20m Norwich), Siggurdson (45m Swansea), Tosun (27m Beskitas) , Lookman 11m Charlton), Pickford (25m Sunderland) Keane (30m Burnley), Onyekuru (7m Eupen), Richarlison (50m Watford) all smashed the records for those clubs,
Not even including ones I do t think we're records but still alarmingly high 33m Onana from Lille, 25m Kean from Jive, 17m Mykolenko from Kiev.
Then you have the utter horror show of paying 20-30m for a host of players who busted out at big clubs AND where not even young.
Iwobi, Walcott, Schneiderlin, Mina, Digne, Gomes, Klaasen, Williams, Doucoure.
I'm not far wrong to suggest we on a stage spent double a player's worth (and I'm talking a players worth now - some 4-5 years in from most)
Even the successful ones here we paid way too much for.
We also did not seem to understand the correlation between a big club having a no longer wanted player there on huge wages, and that this ensured the buying club can significantly lower down the asking price as the market for clubs able to pay those wages is very small.
So we buy three unwanted busts from Barca and we give Barcelona a profit on two of the three.
Digne we paid 4m than Barca did from PSG.
Mina we gave Barca a 18m profit on a player who hardly didn't play for them in two years based on his world cup showing.
Gomes we paid 25m for 12 less than Barca did.
So Barca made 10m total profit on three players who'd failed at the club, were in huge wages and who they wanted rid off
We also gave all three players who'd failed at Barca an actual pay increase in top to compound the idiocy.
Same for Walcott, Iwobi, Schneiderlin - none took paycuts for joining, we paid top dollar for each like they were being fought over by elite clubs when they were not.
We paid the type of money for Bolasie, Klaasen, Tosun, Richarlison, Pickford, Gbanim, Godfrey, Keane. Like we were in a bidding war with United, Chelsea and Real Madrid.
Rather than competing against mid to lower table teams for them (or nobody at all).
Even the prospects who showed promise we paid the type of money you'd expect for way more proven players like Onana and Kean.
