I agree that this window has been a fuckup.
In well-run and operated club, areas that need significant reinforcement would have been identified months before the window. Or by the start of WC at very LATEST.
Targets should have been lined up, best option picked and contact made well before the window opened.
That is pretty simple and straightforward.
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BUT acting like club would be cheap at this point not to write a blank check is utterly fucking stupid.
Porro was sold for 8,5 mil EUR 8 months ago. Transfermarkt prices him at 25 mil.
He plays a niche position that has no proper place in majority of the teams.
For that position, if figures are correct (48 mil agreed; now demanding for 51?) - it would make him 7th most expensive fullback in the history of the game.
FFS we were massively overpaying as it was before, and funds should have been used elsewhere (CB; CM). He is worth maybe half of that 51 mil, but some extremely desperate folks try to make it look like we are being cheap? Unreal...