“What did Barca play for Suarez? £80million? At the time, people think that was over-priced, but when you are giving them a five or six-year contract and, if two or three years down the line,
they are developing as good as you expect, then everyone talks about it as a bargain – ‘£35m for Andy Carroll, what a bargain and we would pay £60m or £70m for him now’. That is football at the top level.”

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