Mourinho blasts “crazy” transfer fees as Manchester City spend £130m on three fullbacks

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has criticized the “crazy” fees being paid for players this summer.
Mourinho has seen local rivals Manchester City spend £130m just on three full-backs this summer, including £52m on Kyle Walker — who arguably was no longer first-choice at Tottenham.

He said: “I don’t think the problem is what you pay for Paul Pogba. I don’t think the problem is going to pay crazy for Neymar.
“I think the problem is with the other group [the lower-bracket players], which is a big group.
“Players like Pogba, there are one or two big transfers per transfer window. The other is where you have 100 transfers and, for me, that’s the dangerous area of the market.

“That’s what worries me a little bit, because now we speak about £30m, £40m or £50m in such an easy way.”
He added: “We spent big money on a striker [Lukaku] because, with strikers, you either spend big or you don’t get.
“We spent because of what happened to Zlatan [Ibrahimovic, who is likely to miss the rest of this year with a serious knee injury suffered in March], and we can’t allow ourselves to be without an important, strong striker for the first six months of the season.

“So our big investment was on a player that we had to have.”