We shouldn't sell him to Chelsea or to any premiership team.
£50m is not an unrealistic figure at all given recent transfer deals. We should sell him abroad this summer or let the contract run out.
We shouldn't sell him to Chelsea or to any premiership team.
£50m is not an unrealistic figure at all given recent transfer deals. We should sell him abroad this summer or let the contract run out.
So you are saying that we should essentially refuse £50million and let him go to Chelsea this time next year for free? He is free to sign a contract with a club of his choosing if in the last six months of his deal. So he could sign the deal in Jan, see out next season with us and then move for free.
It boils down to - would you take a £50million to have him for one more season?
Yes. The last time we let a player go to a rival club he won the league for them when we might have won it. We sell him to a foreign club but if he doesn't want to go we hold on to him because the original post here actually said we'd get £30 million. If he leaves on a free so be it, he'll be 30 by then and may well have gone downhill.
If he is desperate to go he will go abroad.
No. Although I did think of getting some a few years ago. Too late now.
If your point is about the shareholders losing notional money, nothing compared to what they will lose once we plunge Titanic-like outside the CL places. Which we will this season and may not recover unless we have top players in our team. Like Alexis.