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If Chelsea Don’t Want To Pay The Going Rate For Moussa They Are Welcome To Beat It

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This one, I’ll keep nice and simple.

Chelsea allegedly made an enquiry about Moussa Dembele today.

They were given a straightforward enough response; he will cost £40,000,000.

This has, according to some in the media, sparked outraged disbelief amongst their fans and observers south of the border. They believe it’s too much money.

I’ll write that again, so you can process it properly.

Chelsea, the club owned by a Russian billionaire, and who spent £30 million on a deadline day busting deal for David Luiz last year, yes that same Chelsea, the club who virtually invented stupid EPL spending, they think this is mad.

Well you know … tough.

They can sod off then, because that’s what it’s going to cost if they want to get to the front of the queue.

We didn’t look for this bid.

We didn’t put him in the shop window.

We didn’t encourage it.

We don’t welcome it.

They asked the question. They now know the answer. I don’t particularly care whether they like it or not.

Hey, it’s funny money.

It’s like Monopoly cash. Even writing it you can’t help but smile.

The idea of getting it … what would we, a Scottish club, even spend that kind of money on? A new stadium?

Jesus. It’s breath-taking. It would be impossible to say no to.

But what it’s not is stupid, or unreasonable, or too much. Because hey, we didn’t create this over-inflated, ridiculous, stratospheric market. Indeed, we’ve paid the consequences of it existing, as many other leagues in Europe have, time and again. We’ve lost decent players to that predatory league, to teams who wouldn’t have drawn a second glance before money turned them into oversized bloated versions of their real self.

So spare me, please, ye English football fans, the sermon on how unbelievable that fee is. We’re not the ones who thought Robert Snodgrass was a £10 million player. In this window, so far, West Brom have spent £10 million on Jake Livermore (who?) and sold Saido Berahino – you remember him? The guy Sevco fans thought they would get for free – for £15 million in spite of having six months left on his contract. He went to the football giants at Stoke.

So I’m not listening to any of it. I’m not paying a blind bit of notice. When Sky Sports News keeps a running total of the perversion that is the Transfer Window, and when their summer one now tops £1 billion, nobody gets to lecture us on the fees we ask for.

We live in the world the Chelsea’s built. The issue they have with it is that we’re not in a position where we can be quite so easily, so readily, pushed around as they’d like. The Dembele inquiry reeks of retaliation because we won’t shift on Gordon, because their opening offer was an insult. We do not need to sell Gordon and we don’t need to sell Moussa either; they should hear that loud and clear. We do not need to sell.

If we’re asking for an obscene sum then that’s what it’s going to take. Simple as that. If their fans, if the media, doesn’t like the answer they should cease to ask the question. Go spend the money on some over-rated tosser from elsewhere.

The transfer market they invented is like an overblown casino where the House always wins, and their money is always good. Because it’s so damned easy. There’s so damned much. They are like a pissed rock star, trashing his hotel room and then sobering up and complaining about the size of the bill.

Welcome to the world, mate. Get the chequebook out.

The EPL has helped ruin football for ordinary fans of clubs outside its ivory tower. Even the FA Cup has become devalued and a shadow of what it was because of the obscenity that league has become. We’re not taking crap for wanting our piece of the pie.

You broke it, you own it.

If Chelsea want our players they can have them; that’s just a fact of life. They have so much money they can afford to literally make offers too ridiculous to refuse.

And if they really want our guys then they know what they have to do.

Otherwise, they – their fans included – should shut it and their media lackies with them.

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