We had agreed to terms with Oscar, Hazard and Wilian and they hijacked the deals from us but not by paying a few million more, in the case of Osacr and Hazard it was 10 million more than the agreed deals with Spurs and Wilian was an extra 5 million.
For this reason the Spurs office is so tight atm, it would hold water as there is no leaks. Even the contacts we have at Spurs office are refusing to give out any info as the journos jump onto and all of a sudden its public news.
I think Chel$ki just use everyone elses scouts then pay overs for their targets. Money is just not an issue for them.
Oscar cost 19 million pounds, so that means you were paying cost 9 million pounds? No wonder they turned you down. Their settlement with Sau Paulo was more than that and he wasn't allowed to move until that was sorted.
The reason Hazard turned you down was you weren't in the CL
D) had nothing to do with money.
Let's not pretend any of the three of them required any real "scouting". Hazard was the most hunted player in Europe that window.
Oscar played for one of the biggest clubs in South America after leaving another huge club. He was starring in the Copa Libertadores.
Willian was out of the blue but he had already torn up the CL and we were linked with him for most of the previous year.
