It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

[Shaffer92]

It's about the optics of it though. If we keep accepting piss taking bids for our players then that is all we will ever get. We should stand firm on £50 million for Gabby no matter how desperate he is to leave and equally we should only sell Sterling if an appropriate bid comes in.

I'd rather the players walk for free than clubs taking the piss out of us and offering fees you'd struggle to sign a decent Championship player with.

That's fair. I agree the first thing that came to mind when I saw the fee was that it was about 10M short of what I expected.

 

[WNRH]

we have talked here before potential replacement for Raz before

Realistically who would that be - Felix or the Milan kid Leao ?

Both would be close to 80-100 Euros

We have him already. Cole Palmer.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

I don’t know why anyone is baulking at the £35m. The player doesn’t want to be here, we don’t want him, he’s ok £300k a week minimum, Chelsea don’t really need him.

It’s totally different to Jesus and no different to Mane.

It’s a good deal all round. We get £35m cash, save £15m wages for his final year. We get back what we paid for him and he has been a magnificent servant for us.

We got value for what we paid and we are getting value for his sale whilst already having his replacement here.

Lots of assumptions there.

 

[andyhinch]

I agree but history dictates we sell low

We don’t really have a history of selling our top players so I’m not sure what you’re basing that on.

 

[mcfc482]

I think we will sell around 35-45 with add ons. Take the money from him and Jesus and reinvest this summer. Bearing in mind he only has a year left.

Within the next year think we will need a new LW and RW anyway as Mahrez will be off next season.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

We have him already. Cole Palmer.

Completely different players.

 

[WNRH]

Lots of assumptions there.

Not really. Anyone with eyes can see he isn’t happy here and he hasn’t been the go to player for about 14 months now as he was in 2018/19.

 

[WNRH]

Completely different players.

So are Haaland and Jesus.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

The idea that we'd sell Sterling to Chelsea for 35m is the kind of bollocks you'd expect from the Spanish press.

Di Marzio really fell off.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

I mean, if the player and club are okay with his departure and £35m is the best offer we can get then maybe we'd prefer the money to a lesser offer from somewhere else.

I just want a right footed right winger with some pace to give us another option to Mahrez or potentially Cole Palmer. Maybe the money could be put towards a replacement or another top quality player?

Prefer him to stay, certainly prefer him not to go to a league rival, but maybe the club needs/ wants the money.