If he did stay in our youth setup he'd probably make the odd sub appearance in a few Conference League matches and be seen as pure profit to the highest bidder. But if we sign him for £55 million this window he's an instant squad player/starter. The bizarre workings of the Clearlake money ball philosophy.
It's clearlake though is it, every top club is doing this because of the nonsense financial rules now which have made academy players easy money.
Not sure what point you're trying to make. The reality is, as was mentioned above, we signed him for £1.7m before he returned home. He has since made a total of 29 senior appearances and apparently is now worth £55m. Regardless of whatever went before entertaining £55m for a lad with this level cv, is crazy, especially at this time and with the issues we have elsewhere.
Wasn't getting at you, more our social media f**kwits who have decided our owners are idiots for not holding a kid hostage.
To be honest mate I'm not even interested in costs anymore, it's just insane from top to bottom so none of it matters.
The rumours today are Utd are going to use the Garnacho money to buy Dibbling. Now I’m not saying we should buy Dibbling but if the alternative is Garnacho we should definitely buy Dibbling.
Dibbling looks a decent player in the making but still very raw. We actually had him on our books a couple of years ago as a youth, but he went back to Southampton as he was homesick.
No we won't.
