Why There's a Satisfying Smell of Opportunism Around Mateus Fernandes, But Tonali Is the Real Weathervane

Our man Finn provides insight to the transfer

Mateus Fernandes is not a bad signing, but it still has that smell of opportunism about it; it’s essentially carpet-bagging despite the fee. Tonali, on the other hand, is in the open market, and that is where we tend to aspire, but fail - in fairness, van Hecke was also open market, but we had a good run at him with both VDV and RDZ being known quantiti…