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1989 wrote:We wanted Higuain and had agreed a deal for him, then Real suddenly pushed his price up (on Ancelotti's advice perhaps?) and we pulled out, because 1) it showed poor business etiquette on RM's part and 2) if we are gonna spend over £30m for Higuain then might as well go for the superior, PL proven striker in Suarez.
For someone that dishes out a lot of criticism to people believing what they read because they want to you seem to have jumped on this version of events that doesn't really seem to have any solid base as fact...
1989 wrote:We wanted Higuain and had agreed a deal for him, then Real suddenly pushed his price up (on Ancelotti's advice perhaps?) and we pulled out, because 1) it showed poor business etiquette on RM's part and 2) if we are gonna spend over £30m for Higuain then might as well go for the superior, PL proven striker in Suarez.
For someone that dishes out a lot of criticism to people believing what they read because they want to you seem to have jumped on this version of events that doesn't really seem to have any solid base as fact...
That's the way I personally saw it, your choice whether you want to believe it or not.
1989 wrote:We wanted Higuain and had agreed a deal for him, then Real suddenly pushed his price up (on Ancelotti's advice perhaps?) and we pulled out, because 1) it showed poor business etiquette on RM's part and 2) if we are gonna spend over £30m for Higuain then might as well go for the superior, PL proven striker in Suarez.
For someone that dishes out a lot of criticism to people believing what they read because they want to you seem to have jumped on this version of events that doesn't really seem to have any solid base as fact...
That's the way I personally saw it, your choice whether you want to believe it or not.
Seems like an incredibly convenient story to print to allow the various papers to backtrack as they'd spent the last two weeks falling over themselves to report the 'scoop' on the done deal that clearly wasn't. You can bet that if we had been shafted like that Wenger would have been the first one moaning about it in the press.
Realistically we were just never going to pay £30m+ for him and Real didn't blink.
Dan_85 wrote: Yet his "mindgames" with Real bit him on the arse when they decided to fuck the Higuain deal off and now Wenger is left with no other option but to make a move for Suarez (or at least be seen to look like he's making a move, only to fail of course because of Liverpool's "ridiculous demands" ) or face the wrath of the fans.
) or face the wrath of the fans.