Sam Tighe

It seems to me constantly, all the in-the-know transfer markets experts, every club is like, oh, well.

Every agent said, oh, well, you know.

Even like the most kind of marginal players, like, you know, your random Tyrone Mingzes.

Oh, sorry.

I just picked my scene because you're on the phone.

If I'm Tyrone Mings' agent, and this hasn't happened, it's fictional, maybe Tyrone Mings is a very bright guy, maybe he doesn't even have an agent, right?

It feels like everybody and their mom is like, oh, look, time to discuss my contract.

Well, you know, Al-Halal and Al-Ittihad want me.

And then in the papers, like, oh, well, or if you're going to transfer a player to another club, oh, well, you know, sorry, Arsenal.

You're going to have to pay $60 million for Eze because Al-Ittihad is willing to pay $250 million for him.

You know, this kind of nonsense.

People in Saudi are not stupid.

The people in football, right?

They know they've been ripped off.

They were ripped off by this first generation of guys who've come in who haven't really moved the needle on it.

Now, I'm not saying that Cristiano Ronaldo maybe was worth it.

Maybe it's not worth it.

Whatever metric you choose to use.

I think it's pretty obvious.

Karim Benzema perhaps wasn't worth it.