Alioune DVToure wrote:I got what j@sta was saying; there's no way that he'll be getting anything close to 80k at his current club, so to leap to 150k in his first contract at his next club would be ludicrous- especially in the FFP era.
From the way I've seen the story evolve (I think before we were officially interested), he's angling for a massive pay rise, or a move to a club that'll match his wage demands. My guess is that the wage hike has been reported at some point in the press to be in the region of €150K (probably untrue). That's been translated by some to £120K, whereas others just swapped the Euro to a Pound sign (that's happened with a fair few other transfers in recent years, and not just with us).