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Di Marzio said that Man City and Bayern were interested and even offered upto 60mil, but Hakimi wanted to join us :slick:
Maybe after he raped us in the second half of that game in Dortmund, he knew he'd walk right into our starting line-up no questions asked
I mean, not hard to figure out. If he didn't want to deal with Carvajal, at best, splitting time with him, then going to Bayern (Pavard) or Man City (Walker and/or Cancelo) wasn't going to be much different for him. His competition here is Candreva. I don't think he's worried about how that's going to turn out.
I'm not even trying to say this to toot my own horn - who else could care about something so insignificant - but this wasn't a hard one to read the tea leaves as least as far as what our chances were IF we were to put our name in the hat. It was entirely a matter of whether we were willing to spend the money. Hakimi was a first-choice, undisputed starter the last two seasons at a CL club that finished second in their league. He wasn't going to want to move elsewhere (or back, in Madrid's case) to a team that wasn't going to use him as an undisputed starter. Nor should he have done that. And especially with a 3ATB set-up, he had a definite fit here. These were two puzzle pieces that definitely fit together, it just needed the puzzle solver to figure it out and see the bigger picture before he got frustrated and gave up. This is where Beppe's crooked eyes made it easier to see what went where and in a quick enough time.