Raheem Sterling | Joins Chelsea for £50m

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Palmers clearly talented but it's a lot to put on the lad, he's barely turned 20 has 4 league appearances and hasn't played since January due to injury. And when he did play he was false 9.

The bigger problem is no pace out wide.

Real, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG even Chelsea have loads of it.

Grealish, Mahrez and Palmer are all really similar in that they cut inside and beat players with skill and not pace.

If you are cashing in on Jesus and Sterling rather than losing them on a free, that's fair enough but it's £100m in the bank and 500k a week off the wage bill

Sign a winger, why wait?

We waited 2 years on a striker and had to buy 2 in the same window, very happy we've the players we've got but 2 extremely winnable CL's have gone for a burton and we seem to have give up on the domestic cups.

Mahrez contract is up next year anyway so if Palmer doesn't kick on as proposed we could need 2 new wingers next summer.

That and it's a WC year and we have 5 subs now so should be rotating miles more.

People can say "it's the long game" but it's nonsense Jesus and Sterling have been edging towards the door for ages it hasn't caught us on the hop. Long term planning would have been having someone lined up for when they do go.
 
Del_Bosque said:
Palmers clearly talented but it's a lot to put on the lad, he's barely turned 20 has 4 league appearances and hasn't played since January due to injury. And when he did play he was false 9.

The bigger problem is no pace out wide.

Real, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG even Chelsea have loads of it.

Grealish, Mahrez and Palmer are all really similar in that they cut inside and beat players with skill and not pace.

If you are cashing in on Jesus and Sterling rather than losing them on a free, that's fair enough but it's £100m in the bank and 500k a week off the wage bill

Sign a winger, why wait?

We waited 2 years on a striker and had to buy 2 in the same window, very happy we've the players we've got but 2 extremely winnable CL's have gone for a burton and we seem to have give up on the domestic cups.

Mahrez contract is up next year anyway so if Palmer doesn't kick on as proposed we could need 2 new wingers next summer.

That and it's a WC year and we have 5 subs now so should be rotating miles more.

People can say "it's the long game" but it's nonsense Jesus and Sterling have been edging towards the door for ages it hasn't caught us on the hop. Long term planning would have been having someone lined up for when they do go.
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How do you know we haven't?
 
A lot of people aren't quite getting this Raz thing, if he wants to leave he wants to leave and there isn't a thing we can do about it. If he doesn't leave this year for a fee he can move to say Chelsea for free next year.

It's not all about what we can do or what we want, in many ways we have no control over the situation. We can't sell him to a club he doesn't want to go to and we can't keep him if he doesn't want to stay.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Bang on

You don't sell your house without having another one to move into.
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Yes, but that analogy doesn’t hold up here.

We let Kompany leave without a replacement.

We let Aguero leave without a replacement.

We let Torres go mid season with no squad replacement.

It’s not like we always buy like for like when a player moves on.
 
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