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Originally Posted by Lok
Liverpool were buying him from the Premier League which added a premium. Plus they £#%&!ed Southampton about so much they had to pay a lot more. He nearly went for £50m not long earlier.
£90m for Koulibaly is a risk the club wont take. They paid it for Pogba because he is marketable. There's no way they'll pay that for a centre back that the casual fan has never heard of.
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This is 100% the reason.
I'm not saying it's right to splash £90mil on a centre back, nor do I think Koulibaly is worth the money and I think there must be better options out there. But if he, or anyone else, is the best option who is available to us, and that's what they cost, then we just need to pay the fee and get it done.
It's like we're going round a car-boot sale looking at the nicest things people have to offer, offering them half of what price tag says, and then getting told to go £#%&! ourselves. It won't be long until everyone has packed up and £#%&!ed off, and we end up paying the same amount anyway on something shitter.