Gone are the days where a player is judged by how much he costs a club in transfer spend.
We only need look at the signings of Antoine Griezmann, Philippe Coutinho and Ousmane Dembele to ram home that particular point.
Ditto Martin Braithwaite.
The Dane was brought in thanks to the emergency transfer situation Barca found themselves in because of Dembele’s injury.
Cue the culer masses suggesting how far we’d fallen because we were shopping in the bargain basement so to speak. That it was a sign of how bad things were that we had to sign a player from a relegation-threatened rival.