richards30
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As long as both are replaced then with them numbers in fine with both going.
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It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread
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As long as both are replaced then with them numbers in fine with both going.
They will get Sterling, Ake is also defo up for it.
Will be over £100m.
Certainly think Raheem will be sooner rather than later now.
Ake is clearly a back up option but Chelsea are desperate, so can actually see him going for more than Sterling!
Chelsea doing us a favour as far as I can see.
Nobody else has come forward this summer wanting to take Sterling off our hands, solving an issue we were previously resigned to.
Ake, while a popular member of the squad, is still only a fourth-choice back up, nothing which marks him out as being able to dislodge Laporte or Dias.
Getting £50m plus for him would be excellent business and we have to accept he will be feeling the pressure in a World Cup year and has an affinity for Chelsea.
Understandably, many Blues fear losing decent players eventually means the trophy train will hit the buffers, but we are long past that stage, as a club.
That's that happens when the culture is changed by people like Mancini, Pellegrini and certainly, Pep.
We have seen Vinny, Zabba, Dave, Sergio, Toure and Fern all degrade and eventually leave us.
We keep on winning. There are new players to be made heroes of.
Selling Sterling and Ake should not be accompanied with a careful what we wish for, but another opportunity for Pep and City to take the team forward again.
Well put Tolmie . Can see us not getting a sterling replacement but given the struggles of our CBs during the run in - I can't see us NOT getting a replacement for Ake
andyhinch
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So you think we can still make top 4 then ? ;-)Chelsea doing us a favour as far as I can see.
Nobody else has come forward this summer wanting to take Sterling off our hands, solving an issue we were previously resigned to.
Ake, while a popular member of the squad, is still only a fourth-choice back up, nothing which marks him out as being able to dislodge Laporte or Dias.
Getting £50m plus for him would be excellent business and we have to accept he will be feeling the pressure in a World Cup year and has an affinity for Chelsea.
Understandably, many Blues fear losing decent players eventually means the trophy train will hit the buffers, but we are long past that stage, as a club.
That's that happens when the culture is changed by people like Mancini, Pellegrini and certainly, Pep.
We have seen Vinny, Zabba, Dave, Sergio, Toure and Fern all degrade and eventually leave us.
We keep on winning. There are new players to be made heroes of.
Selling Sterling and Ake should not be accompanied with a careful what we wish for, but another opportunity for Pep and City to take the team forward again.
Fordyboy46
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Hope we get maximum value from them, 50m would be goodThey will get Sterling, Ake is also defo up for it.
Will be over £100m.
Certainly think Raheem will be sooner rather than later now.
Ake is clearly a back up option but Chelsea are desperate, so can actually see him going for more than Sterling!
tolmie's hairdoo
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I think we will tell Ake that we will try to find a replacement and if we do he can go, otherwise he’ll have to wait a year at least.
We have told him he can go if Chelsea pay up.
Signing another centre back will be relatively easier to do.
tolmie's hairdoo
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So you think we can still make top 4 then ? ;-)
Depends if United sign De Jong!
Jokithedruid
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Sure, but there is certainly a risk to replace Ake with a 18 year old cb that have 1 senior apperance. I mean he could be the next Vinny, but are we comfortable with that uncertainty?Chelsea doing us a favour as far as I can see.
Nobody else has come forward this summer wanting to take Sterling off our hands, solving an issue we were previously resigned to.
Ake, while a popular member of the squad, is still only a fourth-choice back up, nothing which marks him out as being able to dislodge Laporte or Dias.
Getting £50m plus for him would be excellent business and we have to accept he will be feeling the pressure in a World Cup year and has an affinity for Chelsea.
Understandably, many Blues fear losing decent players eventually means the trophy train will hit the buffers, but we are long past that stage, as a club.
That's that happens when the culture is changed by people like Mancini, Pellegrini and certainly, Pep.
We have seen Vinny, Zabba, Dave, Sergio, Toure and Fern all degrade and eventually leave us.
We keep on winning. There are new players to be made heroes of.
Selling Sterling and Ake should not be accompanied with a careful what we wish for, but another opportunity for Pep and City to take the team forward again.
tolmie's hairdoo
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Hope we get maximum value from them, 50m would be good
Should be a little higher because of Chelsea drawing blanks elsewhere and needing at least two centre back replacements.
£55m plus £5m add-ons would be more like it!
Fordyboy46
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Pau Torres?If Ake does go who do we bring in as 4th choice cb?