goon wrote:
Claudius wrote:
Or.....
we were always chasing Aouar with Partey as a fallback. It actually makes sense if we were never sure we could afford both. We chase Aouar. When Aulas spins his bullshit we go after Partey and work out the financing. It works because the Partey deal has clearer parameters. You know what you are getting and can execute it immediately.
Possibly, but there's a couple of things that wouldn't add up with this theory. Firstly, we never went anywhere near that high for Aouar according to reports (no way Lyon reject anything close to a front loaded £45m bid), which doesn't really add up if he was first choice. Secondly they're completely different players, so it would be an odd alternative.
As Qs said, we probably wanted both but that would’ve required shifting tons of players.
As for the different values - if you have alternatives you don’t have to price them equally. You always have to pay what you think they are worth intrinsically. So that’s how you can explain different valuations.
Either way, if this happens, I’m happy. It’s more or less within expectations for what we were going to do.
