Quote Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick View Post
Without adjusting for football hyper-inflation, is £8m our biggest ever receipt for a player? I think Medel went for 3/4 of his original price which would have been less than £8m. Mutch was around £7m; Chops about £5m?

Problem is - will £8m get us something more than a talented but erratic striker? The current market is insane.
I think you have to consider we may have been going to pay an insane ammout for another striker even if he wasn't sold, so its not selling cheap and buying dear, its cutting your outgoings while the oppotunity presents itself