Tin hat time, but as good as he did for us last season - strip out the chest pumping and histrionics - and all you've got a decent young keeper who's still got a rickett in there every dozen games...
If that's what £75k a week gets you in the PL, the world really has gone crazy!!
I think he probably is one of the top English keepers but until he shows it at the top level, he should be told to fuck right off if he is asking for that.
I get that you pay for potential but there's got to be a limit.
Neil Etheridge is a bit older but still, should easily have a 5 year contracts worth of appearances in him, but no-ones jumping to pay him £75k a week and he kept 2 less clean sheets in the Championship but crucially 10 in the Prem, and is widely regarded as a fantastic keeper at that level.
There's also paying so they don't go elsewhere but again, where does it stop?
Clubs are being bent over by agents and it has to stop somewhere. It'd be a brave club but I'd love it if one just straight up said no.
Rashford wants £350k a week, just say ok then, bye, we'll find someone else that wants to play football not line his pockets, call the agents bluff because Barcelona don't want Marcus Rashford, it's bollocks.
I fear the time to sort agents out has passed though, and the PL are unlikely to do anything re: a rule change.
It's a short career and requires a lot of devotion, so I don't begrudge players getting paid well, but half decent Championship players are getting a decent yearly salary a week as is, some restraint is required.