Manchester City are prepared to make Kyle Walker the most expensive English player in history with a £50 million transfer, but news of his fee from Tottenham has not gone down well with plenty of football fans on Twitter.
City and Spurs have agreed a £50m fee for the 27-year-old full-back, which would match David Luiz's world-record fee for a defender when he moved from Chelsea to PSG.
The transfer fee involved has shocked many, who have compared it to the world record £89m paid for Paul Pogba as well as England's Gross Domestic Product for the year 1635!
Well, £50m for Kyle Walker. Pogba seems like a bargain in my opinion. Crazy market.
— OfficialAgentInsider (@AgentOfficial59) July 13, 2017
£50m for Kyle Walker: https://t.co/ZEIKwCNAlV
— Tim Bolton (@timbolton1) July 13, 2017
Man City have spent the GDP of England in 1635 on Kyle Walker
— Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) July 13, 2017
Trying to work out how Kyle Walker is about to become the most expensive full-back in history with a £50m move to Man City... pic.twitter.com/5gombyQ2JM
— TheFootballRepublic (@TheFootballRep) July 13, 2017
There are quite clearly two markets this summer. One for English teams and one for the rest of Europe. Kyle Walker (£50m) vs Bonucci (£35m).
— Liam Canning (@LiamPaulCanning) July 13, 2017
Kyle Walker best right back in the league??
— ManUnitedZone (@ManUnitedZone_) July 13, 2017
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Hector Bellerin and Rob Holding: £1.5M
— Lacatoes (@Cechque) July 13, 2017
Kyle Walker and John Stones: £105M
I know which one I would prefer.
Spurs when Man City offered them the £55M for Kyle Walker... pic.twitter.com/usOEW4iees
— Raj Chohan (@rajsinghchohan) July 13, 2017
If you had 50 million to spend which would you choose?
— Sam (@VintageSaIah) July 13, 2017
Rt for 200,000,000 Freddo bars
Like for 1 Kyle Walker pic.twitter.com/xNleLwXNkH
£50m for Kyle Walker, Levy has played a blinder and pulled Man City's pants down!
— Mr DT (@MrDtAFC) July 13, 2017
LOL Pogba starting to look like a bargain now
— Son of Zeus (@aaronjohal94) July 13, 2017
£50m for Kyle Walker? This is the transfer window where prices go so far from genuine representation of quality it's frightening.
— Jonathan Harding (@JonBloggs66) July 13, 2017
How am I supposed to sleep when I see that Kyle Walker has been valued at €56million. Surely the world ends tonight?
— Daragh Small (@daraghs0) July 12, 2017
Confirmation that the world of football is crazy as Man City agree £50 Million fee with #Spurs for Kyle Walker. pic.twitter.com/CdWhlWUsUm
— Colossus Bets (@ColossusBets) July 13, 2017
City expect Walker to be part of their squad when they depart for their pre-season fixtures in the United States on Monday.