There is usually a bit of leeway when clubs negotiate transfers with large money, but the Big Six have occasionally shifted the borders to a shameful extent
The summer transfer window has been made in gear, with bids that fly in the left, right and center. Arsenal pushes ahead with a £ 50 million movement for Chelsea Winger Noni Madueke after touching a wall in conversations with Sporting CP for Viktor Gyokeres.
Their rivals in North London Tottenham have sealed the £ 55 million arrival of Mohammed Kudus. And Manchester United still has to reach an agreement with Brentford for Bryan Mbeumo.
With seven weeks left for Deadline Day, there is enough time to negotiate the asking prices. After all, you don't understand if you don't ask.
However, some clubs have taken that mantra a little too far in the past, resulting in some insulting bids. Mirror Voetbal Look here for the most embarrassing offers from the Big Six.
Arsenal – Luis Suarez
Where else can you start, but with Arsenal's laughable £ 40 million+£ 1 stunt. After hearing an assumed release clause in the Liverpool contract from Luis Suarez, the Gunners submitted an offer that was a large British pound over the sum to activate it in 2013.
They were left with egg on their face when it turned out that it only required a possible movement to be only discussed and was not a fully -fledged release clause. The bid was therefore quickly rejected.
It was a lot about the humor of Reds owner John W. Henry, whose iconic tweet stays on the platform to this day, now X: “What do you think they smoke there at Emirates?” In the meantime, Suarez was convinced to commit himself to Anfield for another year before the following year came to Barcelona in a £ 75 million deal.
Chelsea – Luka Modric
Doing business with one of your nearest and brightest rivals will never be easy, and there will often be an extra costs compared to when the player is sold abroad. But Chelsea went the other way when they made a very brutal attempt in 2011 to sign Luka Modric van Spurs.
With an £ 22 million bid, they opened for Modric, who had moved to White Hart Lane three years earlier from Dinamo Zagreb for £ 16.6 million. His boss Harry Redknapp smoke out: “That is ridiculous. People are sold for £ 20 million who are not suitable for tilting Luka's boots.”
Stamford Bridge Chiefs did respond by raising their offer. But they could not hijack the relocation of Real Madrid 12 months later, with the Croatian on its way to the Spanish capital for around £ 30 million – an amount that turned out to be a stem.
Liverpool – Clint Dempsey
Clint Dempsey came from the season of his life in the summer of 2012 and scored 23 goals and registered seven assists in all competitions for Fulham. So you can forgive them that they would not roll over when Liverpool came to call the melody of only £ 3 million.
The Reds were very much in the middle of their chatter era and their refusal to go beyond £ 4 million made their rivals laugh at them again. Although they might avoid something from a bullet.
Dempsey eventually joined Spurs on Deadline Day for £ 6 million. A return of 12 goals and seven assists was respectable enough, but after just one season he went home to his native US to join Seattle Sounders.
Man Utd – Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines
Perhaps this should have been considered a sign of the coming things … United has been frankly for more than ten years tragic on the transfer market, dating from the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson.
When David Moyes took the reins, he wanted to take some of Everton's most appreciated assets with him. His former club was not in the mood to help him when they received an offer of £ 28 million – for both Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines!
“Those bids were immediately rejected from hand as a spot and offensive,” a spokesman for the Toffees closed. It all says about the transfer nous from United that they then only signed Fellaini on the Deadline Day for only £ 500k less than the joint bid.
Man City – Lionel Messi
Although all the above has been deliberately offensive, Manchester City can be somewhat apologized here on the basis of the fact that they accidentally offer £ 30 million for Lionel Messi. Although it makes it all the more shameful.
Former city leader Garry Cook explained the mix in 'The Manchester City Years' by Gary James. Sheikh Mansour had just completed his £ 210 million takeover of the club in August 2009, with Chiefs – based in Manchester, London and Abu Dhabi – to sign an attacker before the window closed.
After failed divers for Fernando Torres and Dimitar Berbatov, Cook explained: “He (a director) made a comment like:” It is all messy. “Through the telephones and other lines of communication, this translated somehow in one way or another:” Get Messi. ” An offer has been made for Lionel Messi of around £ 30 million.
Tottenham – James Maddison and Harvey Barnes
Cherry who chooses the top talent of a relegated club is always a nice exercise for the big boys of the Premier League, who know very well that the sales club is bent over a barrel. But there is still a line and traces good and that was really crossed two years ago.
Leicester City had one of the most stacked squadrons that a relegated Premier League team ever saw, and James Maddison and Harvey Barnes were both intended for large movements. £ 50 million for both would never fly.
Maddison eventually signed on the dotted line of the always-Shameless Daniel Levy, but he cost £ 40 million alone, while Newcastle Barnes signed for £ 38 million. Hey, you were almost two -thirds of the road there boys.