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Originally Posted by andy_m
Well we only got £10m up front, he obviously never did enough to allow us to get the add ons that would have taken it to 15. We've paid £3m to get him back, rising to £6m, which in our team he'll probably manage. So United are only £4m down until you factor in loan fees from us and Cardiff and realise they probably broke even.
What we're left with is a fantastic academy product who already knows that the grass isn't greener so we should do alright out of it but it might not have gone that way, and for what? If our chairman hadn't fought for him he'd be yet another poor United signing discarded early. Fortunately for him we've made sure that didn't happen and provided him again with the chance of a career. He is indeed the lucky one.
Just look how long it took Routledge to get his career back on track after Spurs turned his head. I hope Zaha is an object lesson to all our young kids.
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There's been so many object lessons for them, we have one called Reece Oxford that's being courted over and over before he's even old enough to sign an adult contract, fortunately it seems like he has seen sense and will sign with us but what's the point of the club training and developing his talent for him to be tapped up and stolen for peanuts.