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City doesn't usually overpay. That was in history. Pep doesn't do it, or do you have some examples?City's tactic is usually to overpay, or in this case leverage that Haaland's dad played for them. That's fair. They did also make considerations around promising to not overplay him though, that's pretty niche. But cool let's leave Haaland and City out of it.
Rice will likely want to stay in London, so currently Chelsea and Arsenal have that kind of upper hand for him. Of course I must assume that if he lands Rice, he won't be credited, but Arteta and because it was easy because he wanted to stay in London, or something similar.We're not going to have the upper hand in every transfer, Rice doesn't know Edu. His dad didn't play for Arsenal etc. How are we going to differentiate ourself from the competition? I don't know the answer there but if Edu can be a charming/charismatic business man (something Raul was apparently very good at) then that will help.
If you want to get player cheaper than the selling club wants to sell a player with a long contract, you have to try to call their bluff. Those negotiations will take time if you don't overpay. Arsenal will pay up only those players who they rate high enough to do it, like the White deal.In my opinion he doesn't seem to be good at that. He made Shaktar feel disrespected and he's soured things with Brighton. That doesn't fill me with confidence.
Edu doesn't make the call but I expect Edu to have the interpersonal skills to come back and say something like "Hey Josh, I've met with the guys at Brighton/Shaktar and they're not budging on their valuation, let's move on"
He seems unable to be able to identify what's a bluff and what isn't which leads to us wasting time. I don't have any issue with the club sticking to their valuation.