I am discounting the Chinese bid as I believe it was er...."not quite the whole truth" shall we say.
But this window Lille shy away from 20m euros and NO other bids came in, nothing from down south, or Spain.
This is a kid who scores goals, is capped for Colombia, and has scored in 3 different countries. Rapid, Feyenoord, YBB...goals in Europe. £17.5m is nothing. And yet....
Is it simply bad timing: Covid 19 reducing income and transfer budgets?
Is it agents and 'people in the know' muddying the waters - do these people talk? Do stories gain legs? Is he a 'bad boy'? I will be honest: if i wanted a player I wouldn't care what tittle tattle was about him....but does this worry clubs?
Is it red cards and suspensions? Poor quality of SPL?
I just cannot fathom why we have had one concrete bid and that was from middling Ligue 1 club.
But this window Lille shy away from 20m euros and NO other bids came in, nothing from down south, or Spain.
This is a kid who scores goals, is capped for Colombia, and has scored in 3 different countries. Rapid, Feyenoord, YBB...goals in Europe. £17.5m is nothing. And yet....
Is it simply bad timing: Covid 19 reducing income and transfer budgets?
Is it agents and 'people in the know' muddying the waters - do these people talk? Do stories gain legs? Is he a 'bad boy'? I will be honest: if i wanted a player I wouldn't care what tittle tattle was about him....but does this worry clubs?
Is it red cards and suspensions? Poor quality of SPL?
I just cannot fathom why we have had one concrete bid and that was from middling Ligue 1 club.