jones wrote:
Come on Kroenke Sr or Jr both have nothing to do with it, this transfer is most likely down to Raul and Raul alone, a player this well known and we pulled it off means a couple of agent palms were greased most likely.
That's a really narrow way to look at it, my friend.
I have no doubt it's Raul that has done all the leg work, sold us to Pépé, negotiated with Lille, brought in his old mate Jorge Mendes to push it all through in our favour ahead of some really big clubs, but KSE hired him for precisely this reason. They convinced him to leave Barca and pay him the big bucks to run the club because he's the man, and has been doing this shit for a very long time.
They also fired Gazidis (yes, I believe they did), precisely because he couldn't even dream of pulling off a summer like this. Sanllehi has had the clubs we're negotiating with heads spinning. He's had them on a string all summer.
Even after this, you wouldn't even be shocked if the guy got Zaha to do an interview to beg for a cut price move here the way this little Spaniard fella makes his moves. 😆
Klaus said something in another thread about organisations not being exceptional, but key individuals driving all the success. I could not agree more: Everything comes down to a brilliant individual ultimately. And Sanllehi is proving to be that ambitious, sharp-as-a-tack, ruthless and exceptional individual the club has badly needed, but that doesn't mean you don't give credit to the people smart enough to hire him. And credit to them for backing him too.
