It's not about matching transfer fees, it's the fact clubs like West Ham have to offer ludicrous wages just to get a player interested. Man City pay Sane 90k a week, the same amount West Ham give to Andy Carroll. Chicharito is paid more than Mane gets at Liverpool and almost twice what Rashford earns at Man U. And if Arnie had his way he'd be on roughly the same wages as Mo fuckin Salah! To get a player like Pulisic, we'd have to offer him a similar wage to someone like Messi.
So Nasri's 80k a week suddenly looks like a bargain - even if it's more than Martial gets at Man Utd.
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