I have no issue at all with the club’s stance on transfers as it serves us well to be seen as a club who won’t overpay. On this particular transfer we have a different issue in that the one position we need to strengthen is the deep lying midfielder. Jorginho appears to be a rare enough commodity, a deep lying midfielder who would fit in well with a Pep team. So rare in fact that I can’t think of anyone who fit the brief.
There is also the fact that Fernandinho is 33 and played an awful lot of footballast season. The players who can cover for him are Gundogan, Delph and Danilo but none are like for like replacements. So we obviously need someone else who can play there.
It’s pretty obvious to me that we really need Jorginho this summer and I really hope our stance on this one doesn’t result in Jorginho going to Chelsea.
The only thing on this transfer is that it appears all the leaks are on the Italian side there doesn’t seem to get Chelsea journalists talking it up as yet. So hopefully it’s more ADL skullduggery.