Santi wrote:Nobody even knew who Emerson royal was before we were linked with him, let’s be real.
Could be a good buy for spurs, could be more trash like airier.
That's fair enough Santi, as now here I am trying to convince myself in hope that the last part of your comment indeed proves to be true and my own conviction woefully misplaced. But right now I'm not winning that particular battle.
Emery wanted him, to which point he would have been one of our former managers initial signings and given that he is now only 22, would have shown a decent bit of foresight clocking for a 19 year old costing €12M, as 3 years later he's sold at a cut price £25M due only to a fire sale in Barca's desperate need for cash.
Unfortunately, I cannot erase from my memory being linked to some Portuguese kid wanting to come to the Premier League and whilst we were mulling it over, he played in a pre-season friendly against Man Utd and was pretty much bought right there and then on the spot.
Or watching a young Dutch defender having just signed for Celtic and looking as smooth as glass and classy as a school, who some 2 years later was happy to join Arsenal, but we didn't want to pay the £12M asking price and stuck to our guns (no pun intended) at £10M whilst Southampton stumped up the cash and he went there instead.