I wonder if a piece of the reason to pay now is the fixtures coming up for teams in Europe and the PL now. You’ve got have players to rotate because you’re playing twice a week for ~10 weeks through to the World Cup. Maybe that’s doable and fine, but a couple injuries and things are thin pretty fast. Better to pay, bring players in who you want for your system than to not have enough useful players when things get more difficult. Chelsea throwing cash at Fofana makes me think that also. They do need a player like that, but are way over paying for him.
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