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He’s the best CB we have and the most dominant. The injuries and contract situation is a worry.
I agree he's our best CB. I think Rafael Benitez is an idiot and shouldn't be deciding on new CBs if he had a look at these this summer and decided that the one to go is Mina. I'd rather let Mina run down his contract next season than sell him for peanuts and sign some Sotirios Kyrgiakos equivalent.
Suspect it’s his contract situation that led to decision to try to move him on. Can’t let a player with value like him get into the last 12 months of his contract and go for free. If they couldn’t get him to commit to a new deal last year then summer was the time to try to sell him.
Maybe, we should keep him now though, if we sell him in January we'll be relegated.
I’m not sure we will do that, unless we get small offers. The problem is if he hasnt singed a new deal by the sumner. Then the last season will be going through the motions. With a World Cup in November and he can sign a pre contract in the January.
Agree, difference between selling in January with 18 months or summer with 12 months will be negligible. More important to keep him in the team this season. Just saying suspect it was more business dictating listening to offers for him in the summer past. We’re in a crap position with him now, all the power in his court.
I do get the feeling, well it seems that way to me. That more players are running their contracts down, once they get the last year. Or more teams are reluctant to pay a fee.
Can’t remember who it was but there was a manager on Talksport a month or two ago talking about how transfer economics has changed over the last year/two years. Basically saying the difficult thing used to be signing players, now the difficult thing is getting existing players to sign new contracts. Was saying its increasingly difficult because clubs are shifting strategy to sign players with no transfer fee and in return the players and agents get big signing on fees and increased wages.
Yes I think it was @Zatara who put a list up of free agents this summer, impressive list to be fair. It’s maybe clubs like us that will be forced to try and buy them in jan for a fee. Though I’d imagine most will already know which clubs are interested in them.
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We ain't getting any of those guys, maybe Martin Skrtel?
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Whilst I agree with you it’s going to be criminal if we continue with coleman at right back. It’s like coleman himself and I fully get it too, can’t accept he can’t do things he could do five years ago. My fear last night was traore coming on and just ripping him a new one. Say for instance Mane up against him in a few weeks or sterling. It’s going to be horrific.