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Originally Posted by KDawg
I kinda don’t want to fathom what United could’ve spent the Alexis money on. I’m strongly confident that I was all for it at the time (but knew that the back end of the deal could be ugly). I never expected the whole deal to be ugly.
At least United are going after young and hungry guys now even if they do cost a pretty penny. Alexis was already kinda done in England when United did that deal, but he also seemed to have zero drive when he got the bumper pay day. Thank god that nightmare is over.
Imo Alexis being already done in England is hindsight even though he did suck for Utd from day one. But they had to outbid City who have been pretty good on the transfer market, at least when it comes to attackers. I remember some mad eltbus posts.
As for Alaba, I know lol shirts and all, but he's been at Bayern since he's been 14 or whatever and might just like it there so it's possible PL clubs would have to give him significantly more money than Bayern, who aren't exactly poor themselves. Of course he could also want to go somewhere else after all those years at the same club. He'll be able to command a top wage anywhere so this might actually be a situation where it might come down to where he wants to play rather than a 5-10% difference in weekly wage.