Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
Happened to bigger and better clubs than us.

United paid 80+million for a guy who they sold from their academy.

Chelsea got rid of KDB, Lukaku and Salah for peanuts compared to their worth now.
For kdb and Lukaku, that was Chelsea trying to comply with FFP. Otherwise they would have definitely kept those two. Unfortunate for them as almost all the other big clubs either completely ignored the ruling at the time or found clever accounting ways to get around it.