Some will still defend it as genuinely trying though.
Not me, trying is not the issue. Either we make signings or we don't.
The very fact that so few fans care about 'trying' makes the made-up bids thing so ridiculous in the first place.
It's not that the bid is made up. The bid is purposely low, they know Lyon wont accept it but they throw it in anyway.
How many times do you need to see this s*** to finally accept it for what it is.
All I know is that sometimes we meet a selling club's valuation and sometimes we don't. That's all you know as well. The rest is speculation.
In my mind the fact that we enter into transfer negotiations with the aim of seeing them fail is just ludicrous. For all sorts of reasons. I just can't believe it happens.
We've all become so cynical, with good reason in most cases.