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Fuck me £36m for Martial no wonder we never got close to a deal. Even with a down payment and add ons, we'd never have thought about that much for him. Makes Berahino look like a good deal, even at £25m.
Monaco got him from Lyon for 3.5m with lyon supposedly getting 25% of any transfer fee. Ker-Ching!
Oh well, wonder what other striking targets we'll get gazumped on?
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Spurs were told they would need to pay £20m for Martial back in June. They decided against it. He signed a new contract. United turned down every player likely to sign for them and targeted players who had no intention of joining them. 24 hours before the deadline closes they decide to spank £36m on a player they could've bought for half that 6 weeks earlier.
Tenderloin
Good to see United's hard nosed negotiating team have driven a hard bargain on the price for an unproven 19 year old.