Staunchest of the staunch- that Aribo statement is laughed off the intenet
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After failing miserably to get their £20m asking price, the world’s most insecure football club went all defensive over the £6m transfer fee from Southampton for Joe Aribo.
A simple ‘undisclosed fee’ would have covered it for most clubs but the need to portray a big time image brought out the use of significant rather than admit the truth over a fee that won’t provide Giovanni van Bronckhorst with significant new funds.
In 2022 few big time clubs consider £6m as significant. The deal was so ‘significant’ that Southampton dragged it out over three days, comfortable in the knowledge that no other club was interested in the 25-year-old.
Really needed that ‘significant’ in there. Plain old ‘undisclosed’ not good enough for the world’s oldest, biggest and most insecure new football club?! https://t.co/2hyoENkGjz
— TheTowerBar (@TowerBarGlasgow) July 9, 2022
Staunchest tweet ever. Served with distinction as if he was at the Somme https://t.co/sJLr1vo64G
— MB (@melbourne88) July 10, 2022
With just three years distinguished service there should be some epic comments when veterans Morelos and Kent leave the club formed by Charles Green in the summer of 2012.