We give our managers way too much importance in transfer matters. Unless you're Pep, Klopp or someone like that, you should have little say in exactly which players are signed. Time to tell them to play the players we sign or hand in their resignation letter. They think short-term and are all about their own shitty systems rather than what we really need. Lucho was the one who didn't want to go for Kroos and was so interested in Arda and Gomes.
If Valverde is pissed because he didn't want Yerry, but Inigo instead then he can fuck right off where he came from and manage him there. Our transfer policy been a mess, but partly also because we've given our managers a free reign in these matters.
He's seemed very cold in his press conferences when it comes to Arthur too so I have no doubt the same might happen to him if he arrives in January. There's been plenty of occasions this season, at home, where Mina and Vermaelen could have played with Umtiti so we could rest a Pique that's been battling a knee injury for months.