Wow. Angry much. You work in a different industry to footballers, with different rules. Accept that, be comfortable and humble.
On the transfer fee, you have to admire Liverpool's resolve. Either they are resolute in keeping their star player. Or they push a desperate Barca into paying twice what Coutinho is worth. Either way they win. And that's admirable. The same way you can admire Levy's business savvy even if you find everything else about Spurs deplorable.
In any case, despite different industries having their own specific rules, Jonesy, people still act the fool. I have an Executive client who had a 4 month notice period. He was moving between two corporations. He sat around doing nothing and being moody for 3 months until they cut his notice period to 3 months and let him leave a month early, even though it meant they would have no formal handover with his successor. He basically pulled the kind of strop that footballers do, and rather than let him pollute the locker room, they released him. It's life. We decide which levers to use that we have available to us to get the things that matter to us.
