Dzeko and a wider point on transfer sales
In the last week there have been suggestions that Inter Milan are interested in buying Dzeko at around £ 15 million in the summer. We paid around £ 27 million for him of course.
Also in the last week or so heard that Chelsea will offload Torres to such as Inter Milan or Monaco for around £ 20 million
Surely Torres with 3 years of such poor form against Dzeko (although with many critics, but a good goalscoring record) is not worth more than Dzeko.
Why do we always seems to get poor deals both when selling and buying players. if Chelsea get £ 20 million or about for Torres we should ask at least £ 25 million for Dzeko.
Even last summer we should have got more than £ 10 million for Tevez (at least £ 15 - 18 million I would have thought) and rather than loan Barry to Everton (who like all Prem. League teams get good TV money and also who got £ 27 million for Fellaini) (and we probably still pay a good part of his wages) , we should have insisted that if Everton want him, they have to buy him (at least £ 5 million). If Everton would not, and Barry wanted first team football, someone else would no doubt have taken him, and he would have gone for playing time.
Are we going also to do the same with Rodwell , loan him out, pay part of his wages and let his contract gradually run down and down (£ 12 million spent on him if i recall)?
What is going to happen with Scott Sinclair (another £ 6 million we spent) ?
We may as well have sold Lescott for a few million in Jan or last summer if the manager does not want him. about £ 22 million we paid for him and another who will go on a free like Barry
Also how do Chelsea get around £ 16 million for De Bruyne, a player only ever on the fringes of their squad? Id they can get this we by logic should then be able to get a similar amount if we wanted to sell Lopes ?
We should insist on sales for our more senior\first team\squad players when they are no longer wanted by the manager, and only loan out such as EDS for experience to see how they go.
We need to get Daniel Levy to negotiate all our Transfer activities from now on ! (This might be a worry if our manager says he want Jan Vertonghen as partner to Vincent Konpany).
If Porto still want £ 38 million for Mangala we should tell them where to go, and similarly £ 12 million for Fernando when he should have been on a free transfer this summer.
When was the last time we got a good deal selling or buying a player - Shaun Wright Phillips maybe or Paul Stewart way back when ?