I could be wrong but I thought it was higher than that. 60mil for Hulk and 40mil for Axel Witsel. That's how it is with oil money!!!
I'm a Porto fan and knew Hulk would be leaving but thought to a big club/league. Not the damn Russian league to Zenit!! I already lost Bruno Alves to them!!!!
Axel Witsel was a big surprise to me. I feel SL Benfica are going to be extremely hurting cuz of this (and Javi Garcia going to Man City on Friday, they also don't have a natural LB and a massive over abundance of forwards/strikers). He only played for 1 season and did an awesome job. Just crazy how 2 of the best players in the Portuguese league who I thought for sure would end up in the EPL end up at Zenit. oh well!
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can NOT believe that Raul Meireles went to Fenerbache!!! He was the man at Liverpool towards the end of his play there when they actually used him how he plays best. He was solid at Chelsea and I least expected them to let him go. And now my man goes to Turkey?! UUGGHHHHH!!!!!
I fear it has something to do with his contract. Liverpool dumped him (instead of Andy Carrol lololololol) due to him having something in his contract which required Liverpool to pay him more, something about performance clause would see a jump in wages. I'm guessing thanks to helping win the CL and being one of the better players at Chelsea that his wages got a bit too high? Just a guess... can't believe he went to Fenerbache though. He was one of the reasons why I even followed a bit of Chelsea!!