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1st August 2016
11:29am BST

"If you bring one player in for £100 million or whatever and he gets injured then it all goes through the chimney. "The day that this is football, I’m not in a job any more, because the game is about playing together. "Other clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players, yes. Do I have to do it differently to that? Actually, I want to do it differently. I would even do it differently if I could spend that money. "If I spend money it is because I am trying to build a real team. "You can win championships, you can win titles. But maybe there is a manner in which you want it."https://twitter.com/JOE_co_uk/status/759998858113843200 And Arsene Wenger has been quick to echo those sentiments. Quoted in Tuttosport, the Arsenal boss, who is linked with a big-money swoop for Riyad Mahrez, gave his stunned take on the transfer fee. He said:
"It’s complete madness when measured against real life," he said. "But we live in a world in which everything that happens is geared towards moving money around. "It’s complete madness but it seems that if you can afford to do it, you can justify it. Football has become a global competition and that is why clubs are chucking these kinds of sums around. "Does it make sense because the player can deliver a return on that investment? I don’t think anyone can make that call. "Since I’ve been in the game I’ve always thought there would be a limit to how much clubs could spend on a player but it looks like I’ve been proved wrong. "Maybe in a few years’ time we’ll be talking about fees of 200 or 300 million."There has been plenty of Pogba news over the weekend, though still nothing close to official confirmation of negotiations from Manchester United themselves. We got Zlatan Ibrahimovic's take on the potential deal, United skipper Wayne Rooney's thoughts, and while all that has been going on, the man himself has been working on his best Stormzy impression.
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