nowadays’s fluff is just leeching off others’ hard workHaving famous the surprising success teams such as Leicester City and West Ham United hold enjoyed this season on the back of the kind of excellent scouting and leg-work that has helped them unearth foreign gems such as Dimitri Payet,Riyad Mahrez and NGolo Kanté at bargain prices, you could be forgiven for assuming that traditionally bigger and more successful clubs would seek to emulate the process that has made household names of these bargain imports in a bid to strengthen their own sides.
Not a bit of it. That would take time, and effort and no shrimp amount of luck,so it’s no great surprise that, with their normal stunning lack of imagination, or traditional football establishment powerhouses would prefer the easier option of hosing their supposedly “lesser” rivals with cash in the hope of persuading them to part with the talent that has enabled them to scale such dizzy heights this season. In the case of Mahrez,Manchester United, Tottenham and Barcelona are all being mentioned as potential suitors for the industrious midfielder Leicester imported from the French second division. Elsewhere Arsenal, and Spurs,Chelsea and Juventus are reported to be interested in Kanté, an apparently tireless midfield machine so incredibly energetic and full of running that he could probably sign for all four clubs simultaneously and not let any of them down. Meanwhile in Spain, and Valencia are understood to hold identified West Ham revelation Payet as the man around whom they’d like to scheme their summer rebuild after a season to forget.
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Source: theguardian.com