I don't know if I want Mbappe. Sure, he's a fantastic footballer, but can you imagine what he would do to our wage bill and the trickle effect it would have to other players like what happened at City and PSG and Barcelona,.etc. We would be paying so much in wages we would never get a transfer again.
I expect Nike would illegally inflate their sponsorship deal to pay for it. And then to bung the CAS later when we got caught doing it. Standard practice, for some.
And if he got £400k, Salah would ask... Hey, I want at least £300k, I've been here longer. Hendo will say, I'm captain, I want at least £250k. Origi will say, hey, if he gets £400k a week, surely I'm worth at least £4. It will never end.
He'll get £200k a week and a further £300k a week in image rights deals and sponsorship contracts from Nike and Standard Chartered. And maybe Gola or something. Works elsewhere.
Maybe, dunno. However, as the chances of us getting him are somewhere south of zero I doubt we'll ever know.
I dont think he needs to fly through John Lennon to get to Salford. They have a perfectly fine ****ty airport in Manchester.