I find it absolutely staggering that we were prepared to pay £15m and £50k per week for how long - 3 years minimum possibly ? (nearly £8m in total) for a player that the Transfer Committee did not want to sign. I would be interesting to find out why Messrs. Dalman and Choo did not want to sign him. Did they think that they were paying over the odds ? Perhaps they didn't think he was good enough ? Or perhaps they didn't want to get into deal that involved Mackay ? We may never find out.