All assumptions and guesswork and bs we will never know the reason 100%. Good luck to him and all that, neither of us (club or KP) owe one another, he has talent and we the club developed it and made him as he is today. Win - win.
I remember early doors folk groaning when his name was on the selected team sheet, in the same breathe I never thought also not long ago that we would be conducting 50 mill transfers!
My two penneth.
Agree he has more than paid his dues and staying the final year in the EFL to get us up when many other players would have jumped ship is a good example of that.
Always hurts that bit more when top home developed talent leaves - Batty, Speed, Smith, Delph, Milner and now Phillips.
Always been that way since the 1980s when the club let Seaman, Lukic, Scales, Linighan, Sellars, Irwin etc all go within a couple of seasons of each other.
This thread is 'nuts'.......
The amount is very disappointing. He's better than any of the sub 50 million transfer fees. Just the reality regardless of whether you are a Leeds fan or not. I'm sure that the other teams look at us as chumps.
It did not help that he really only wanted to go to citeh. Hard to negotiate when you only have one option.
really hope we get 70 for Raph but based on this transfer suspect it will be closer to 50 than 70
we also overpay for our signings. Orta must be the first call any DOF makes when he wants to get a rob someone.
He will be queuing up behind Rodri (and perhaps others), so he had better rehearse looking happy whilst warming the bench. This is World Cup year remember, and what game time will he have between seasons start and the WC in December? I'll make a guess at next to diddly squat, and that could be said about his prospects for a start in either the CL or the WC. Schitty have hoovered him up as they have so many others, to make sure he isn't a threat to them, not because he's an asset.