Sevilla director of football Monchi has insisted it wasn’t weird for him to turn down a significant offer from Manchester City for Jules Koundé in the last window. City were heavily linked with the French defender throughout the summer transfer window City instead electing to spend their money on Ruben Dias at Benfica. That was mainly due to Sevilla’s reluctance to let Koundé. “Not strange (rejecting the bid),” he told El Desmarque. “We felt or did what we thought was fair and in defence of the interests of the club, also in an ambitious way, because many people would have chosen to accept that offer. “We value pros and cons and believe in the player, that has been key. We believe in the projection of a 21-year-old boy with a lot of ground to make up. Despite being a magnificent offer, very very good, it did not satisfy the requests or what we thought of the player. “Perhaps it was not what he was worth, because possibly that offer was close to what he was worth at that moment; also we have to think about what he can be worth.”
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