billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
I expect him to leave could be a surprise sale tooI wouldn't be.
Loans aren't free - usually a loan fee involved and wages to cover, so I'd expect the only way we'd do anything would be if Holgate left
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I expect him to leave could be a surprise sale tooI wouldn't be.
Loans aren't free - usually a loan fee involved and wages to cover, so I'd expect the only way we'd do anything would be if Holgate left
Agree.Disagree with almost everything you've written there.
First: the CB group required attention. Why? Branthwaite injured (and widely rumoured to be leaving), Tarkowski in the twilight of his career, Keane and Holgate both awful and overpaid. Bringing in O'Brien now was the right call, and will only become an even better call if we can sell one of Keane and Holgate before the window closes.
Second: Keane has absolutely NOT been better than Tarkowski. That's simply wild.
Third: We are, if Tarkowski is indeed carrying an injury, facing a potential absence of both our starting CBs. In that scenario, the 4th CB has to play. When your 3rd CB is Keane and your 4th is Holgate, you don't EVER want them playing together - you don't even want ONE of them playing, if you can help it.
Buying O'Brien was a good use of funds. You're right in saying we're short of cash, but in that situation you can't always get everything you want, which is why selling is so important: if we can get a Maupay-lite deal for one of Holgate or Keane, then we have improved the CB room and lowered the payroll for that group AND recouped some of the transfer fee.
The alternative is getting to next July with Tarkowski a year older, Keane and Holgate out of contract (having both sucked another year's salary each from the club) and Branthwaite being sold, with no succession strategy in place. That's when magically the price of CBs would go through the roof every time we tried to buy one. Not remotely sensible.
It is trueUtter balls from his agent to gain traction for some other Championship move later tonight
I'll have some of whatever it is you've been drinking.Iimagine if something crazy happened and our prospective owners put in a quick loan and said 'go and buy Toney' ....
that would change everything I reckon. I like to dream on transfer deadline day
I'm pretty sure because the next season we bought him for like 30 million which was in the bill days, so it was a major expenditure for us and left us a with no further budgetAre you sure I remember it as a cash purchase? I could be wrong, but it really was out of nowhere
I expect him to leave could be a surprise sale too
GOT to surely. There’s like ten lads at Chelsea begging for moves. Just pick one.I'd be surprised if we didn't use that last domestic loan
I think we should get Fofana regardless they will need to shift players their demands will shrink right down as the clock ticks downGOT to surely. There’s like ten lads at Chelsea begging for moves. Just pick one.
Disagree with almost everything you've written there.
First: the CB group required attention. Why? Branthwaite injured (and widely rumoured to be leaving), Tarkowski in the twilight of his career, Keane and Holgate both awful and overpaid. Bringing in O'Brien now was the right call, and will only become an even better call if we can sell one of Keane and Holgate before the window closes.
Second: Keane has absolutely NOT been better than Tarkowski. That's simply wild.
Third: We are, if Tarkowski is indeed carrying an injury, facing a potential absence of both our starting CBs. In that scenario, the 4th CB has to play. When your 3rd CB is Keane and your 4th is Holgate, you don't EVER want them playing together - you don't even want ONE of them playing, if you can help it.
Buying O'Brien was a good use of funds. You're right in saying we're short of cash, but in that situation you can't always get everything you want, which is why selling is so important: if we can get a Maupay-lite deal for one of Holgate or Keane, then we have improved the CB room and lowered the payroll for that group AND recouped some of the transfer fee.
The alternative is getting to next July with Tarkowski a year older, Keane and Holgate out of contract (having both sucked another year's salary each from the club) and Branthwaite being sold, with no succession strategy in place. That's when magically the price of CBs would go through the roof every time we tried to buy one. Not remotely sensible.
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