We're living in different times. TV money priced this transfer.
Not really mate. Van Dijk will go for around £11m this window and that's an in-demand, highly rated defender, whilst Chelsea have just signed a defender from France for around £3m, and that's Chelsea who pretty much every club mug off.
Meanwhile, we're spending £9.5m on a back up centre half from a part of the world notorious for having dodgy defences.
That's an extra 50% on what we all expected this fee to be. That's a huge amount. It's not Martial stupid but 'kin hell Everton...
That pretty much means we're looking at a loan and that's it now.