Yeah and Lopes is a young highly thought of player who's going to struggle to break in a at City in a position we're looking to improve.
It's another young inexperienced kid though isn't it DD plus it would be like getting repeatedly kicked in the balls by saying "yeah we will sell you one of our top players, but any chance we can have him back for a year because we are scruffs,oh and we will take one of your kid centre backs as well for you if you don't mind".
We've already got a board mentality of small mindedness without us helping them mate. If he goes, he goes but not before Martinez absolutely punts him up the arse for about 3 miles I hope.