Aymeric Laporte

[Plain Speaking]

Not likely.

Dias
Stones
Walker
Ake
Akanji
Gvardiol
Lewis

You can easily imagine Walker and Stones going down, could leave us thin with so many games! Rotation is essential with longer games.

 

[dhruvblue]

Maybe we hold on to Harwood Bellis, club trained and only 21.

He is next. Today press is reporting interest from Leicester leeds Soton etc

 

[Kompany Car]

Not likely.

Dias
Stones
Walker
Ake
Akanji
Gvardiol
Lewis

It was just with people saying it left us a bit short at the back. THB could more than cover, although he's an expensive asset to have as a "just in case."

 

[Coatigan]

And yet here we are....

Good luck to the lad if he decides to go. He did OK for us but as i said, he was 5th choice for a reason.
He's a good player, but he's definitely not 'elite' standard.

Here where, have we accepted 30m from west ham? No. He is an elite player, he will get an elite wage, and we'll get a fair fee

 

[Plain Speaking]

Great bit of business for us because he won’t quite make first team for us and I bet we got a substantial fee.

Overall it feels like a bit of a shame really though because outside of us he’s capable of playing at the highest level and potentially is still a top ten centre back in the world. Amazed really he didn’t push to go to somewhere like Barca or Madrid.

Less than £30m is not a great bit of business imo, he should be worth be much than that, in current market!

 

[schfc6]

We were very lucky last season with so many games, to have so few injuries at the business end. Zero injuries prior to the finals!

Looking at our typical injury record over history and that of other clubs at the same stage of the season that's incredibly rare.

Although we have elite support systems and management we can't assume we're going to get that again, with potentially more games!

But we can’t expect top top players just to stick around just in case theres 3/ injuries in his position.
Laporte is still one of the best left sided centre backs in the World. Watching Bayern & Real, Laporte would walk into their sides. He’d walk into Liverpool and United’s side. He’d be Chelsea’s best defender, PSG’s best defender. Spurs’ best player.

 

[blueparrot]

Less than £30m is not a great bit of business imo, he should be worth be much than that, in current market!

Who's offering more ? that he wants to go to.

 

[Gabriel]

If we were paying Barcelona for a central defender who had fallen down their pecking order, was apparently deemed surplus to requirements, and had a history of injury concerns, I’m not sure we’d be happy paying 40 million.

 

[HelloCity]

You can easily imagine Walker and Stones going down, could leave us thin with so many games! Rotation is essential with longer games.

We have more defensive quality and depth than any team in world football.

HB wouldn't get any minutes apart from maybe the odd sub appearance in a league cup game if he was lucky. At his stage he needs to be out there playing regular.

 

[bondsman]

Gutted to see him go. Top class player