A "claim" is not proof - do you have the contract offer we made in front of you?! I don't see that what we did with Bayat makes much difference either - when you look at the fact we've still been willing to spend money outside the club recently on talented youngsters like Kone and Ferreira, then we're clearly still able and willing to invest in young players when we can and it's worth it. Do you think that say if we thought Amass was worth maybe £5mil, and that if all it would have taken to keep him was offering him an extra £1k per week or so that we wouldn't have done it if was feasible? The club would still be capable of basic maths like that.
I'm pointing out that it's possible - which it clearly is - I haven't said that it's 100% what's happened.
Was always going to be controversial for us to put HAmass on our teamsheet with our links to Ben Corbyn.
The quote from his grandfather says we have made him an offer that is only slightly higher than most scholars receive; does not seem that we are willing to do what is needed to tie down the best talent even if they don't expect us to 100% match a big club's offer.
