gingerprince
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Deserves mentioning that when called upon recently he's been top class.Top Professional.
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6 | Nathan Ake - 2025/26
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Goater=Legend
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Has it been decided what's happening with him?
ninjamonkey
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I suspect it will be upto him. I personally think he's got one last year in him. Great experienced option for us to fill in and also brilliant to bring on to see a game out. His experience also becomes more important with so many departures.Has it been decided what's happening with him?
The question will be whether that is enough for him, if he wants one final go at being first choice he may opt to move on and we surely won't stand in his way. Hope we keep him and he recognizes his career lengthens if he accepts a lesser role. We won't find anybody better to do that role.
LongsightM13
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A brilliant servant to the club. For the sake of a nominal fee, I’d like to keep him for his last year but wouldn’t prevent him leaving to play more football either. With Bournemouth securing Europa League and losing Senesi, I could see him returning there for a couple of years
We kept John Stones despite his fitness issues but if he wants more game time then we probably have to move him on as we are already well covered.
Imagine where we’d be as a team if Ake, Stones and Kovacic had been fit all season. Title is wrapped up in January, I think we beat Real, Rodri probably isn’t rushed back from injury etc.
I absolutely adore those lads but we’re carrying too many injury prone players. It just fucks the season up, it’s not their fault but us going into the season with those 3, Doku who is always injured and Rodri with a torn ACL - 1/4 of the squad was injured for significant time.
I think we should be thinking about 1-2 injury prone players max.
Best ability is availability etc.
Sky Blue Thinking
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Would like him to stay, a useful player to have in the squad and home grown, but wish him all the best if he goes and hope he can stay injury free.
I did wonder about him on the last day of the season. It felt a bit sad that Stones & Bernardo got the goodbye they did while Ake might well end up going but got nothing. I know we couldn't do anything because there's nothing definite, plus he didn't play as many games as either of them, but it still seemed like a situation where he deserved more somehow.
Was the best LB in the world the treble year. He was unreal for us despite struggling when he first arrived.I did wonder about him on the last day of the season. It felt a bit sad that Stones & Bernardo got the goodbye they did while Ake might well end up going but got nothing. I know we couldn't do anything because there's nothing definite, plus he didn't play as many games as either of them, but it still seemed like a situation where he deserved more somehow.
Was the best LB in the world the treble year. He was unreal for us despite struggling when he first arrived.
Ake was great then. And when he got injured vs Bayern, Akanji replaced him at LB vs Arsenal and Real (both legs) and we played even better: 4:1 vs Arsenal and 4:0 vs Real.
blue b4 the moon
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Would really like him to stay for another season, we've seen time and time again how suddenly we're short of defenders during the season, having to bring Max back from Watford was one of the many reasons we struggled for a few games which ended up being very costly.