Football

Tenderloin,

I doubt we'll get all three. Moutinho is probably being priced out of our pockets by Porto. I'm thinking we're looking to pay 10-15mill for players rather than the finance busting 20-30mill..

It's another complicated third part ownership scenario. Moutinho has almost 40% of his ownership with an investment portfolio - Porto are therefore having to factor this into any deal. I actually think you will get Moutinho and Willian more than the others...

Porto are very savvy operators in the transfer market as well and never let their players leave for anything other than a hefty profit.

http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/portos-buy-low-sell-high-strategy.html

One of my favourite football blogs and always great for the financial side.