I think some of the managers' demands are spoiling the spirit of football. It is something that should not happen in football for teams to ask for very high amounts of money for their players. The two best players in the world, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, were players who did not receive as many transfer fees as today's players. I think football was a little better then. Teams used to talk about achievable figures for transfers, but now astronomical figures are being asked for players and I think this is very wrong. Yes, a player can be valuable, but the money asked for should be at reasonable levels. I think the income of the clubs has not increased much compared to the past.
You really think clubs think about that? Football is business, sometimes things are done strategically if not for anything but for ways to generate more revenues. People are now eager to watch football and the more they do this things for their fans, more money they make, unless they want to go broke but with fair policy, no club can spend more than what each club earn on a season to avoid been broke to cater for other expenditures, football is about income now.
Not only that, clubs demands is what make sellers to increase price anyway they want. What would you have a club do when there are 5 clubs, hot 5 clubs from different leagues trying to buy a particular player, they are going to try as much as possible to increase the asking price, that's how price get high and yet one particular club go to the extent of buying the player. Look at how tasty Saudi Arabia clubs are eager to have players from Europe as if they are using them for some kind of ritualist, the money are too unrealistic but trust me, they are ready to pay.