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Nathan Ake
- Thread starter jaiguruKun
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Would be madness to let him go.
We have 4 really top class CBs. We need to have 2 on the pitch and at least one on the bench and fit at any one time.
Stones is fantastic but has repeated niggly muscular injuries.
Dias is fantastic but not immune to a pretty bad hamstring injury as we saw at the end of the season.
Laporte is fantastic but just had knee surgery.
Ake is fantastic but seems to have had a dodgy ankle recently.
Even employing all four of these players we still found ourselves in a position of having to briefly pair Mbete with Fernandinho in one match (surely one of the biggest CB partnership age gaps in history) - and we've just lost Fernandinho too.
We can only sell Ake if we're also buying a CB of equal quality and equal willingness to be rotated, or if Mbete's ready to step up and do what Ake did this season, and there's another EDS CB waiting in the wings to fill Mbete's current role.
We have 4 really top class CBs. We need to have 2 on the pitch and at least one on the bench and fit at any one time.
Stones is fantastic but has repeated niggly muscular injuries.
Dias is fantastic but not immune to a pretty bad hamstring injury as we saw at the end of the season.
Laporte is fantastic but just had knee surgery.
Ake is fantastic but seems to have had a dodgy ankle recently.
Even employing all four of these players we still found ourselves in a position of having to briefly pair Mbete with Fernandinho in one match (surely one of the biggest CB partnership age gaps in history) - and we've just lost Fernandinho too.
We can only sell Ake if we're also buying a CB of equal quality and equal willingness to be rotated, or if Mbete's ready to step up and do what Ake did this season, and there's another EDS CB waiting in the wings to fill Mbete's current role.
Its a good point but I think the question is less about profit and becomes something like - is it easier to replace Ake with a competent 4th choice cb for less then £50m, and can we allocate that extra cash to a bigger first team signing the next few years.I don't see how making £10 million profit is a big factor for us. We're here to win trophies and for that we need a deep, strong squad to go full in on 4 fronts. We were down to the bare bones at CB last season and we need Ake to stay. A replacement will cost at least £50 million and will need time to adjust to the way we play.
Just making names and figures up but if a slight Ake downgrade nets us an extra £20m to go after Bellingham or something next summer, I can see the logic. Ideally I do want to keep Ake though.
Selling Ake for 40M£ and getting someone very good for 25M£ is maybe the right idea. But paying more for the replacement than for selling Ake is simply ridiculous.Its a good point but I think the question is less about profit and becomes something like - is it easier to replace Ake with a competent 4th choice cb for less then £50m, and can we allocate that extra cash to a bigger first team signing the next few years.
Just making names and figures up but if a slight Ake downgrade nets us an extra £20m to go after Bellingham or something next summer, I can see the logic. Ideally I do want to keep Ake though.
We paid £40m for him, makes no sense at all to not even make a profit on a guy we really don't need to sellSelling Ake for 40M£ and getting someone very good for 25M£ is maybe the right idea. But paying more for the replacement than for selling Ake is simply ridiculous.
I have no info whatsoever but I think it'd take a larger fee than that to sell Ake, and if he does go I can't imagine the club would want to spend more on a replacement. Have you seen otherwise?Selling Ake for 40M£ and getting someone very good for 25M£ is maybe the right idea. But paying more for the replacement than for selling Ake is simply ridiculous.
Ake's wishes will also play into it. I could not blame if he just said hey, love it here and all, but I'd rather start at Chelsea then be 4th choice. He also came through their academy didn't he?
yeah whatever !!
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Was a beast against Real Madrid 1st game.Getting strangely pissed off about this. Quality backup option which was more than required last season because if injuries.
I mean I trust the club but we have to replace him surely ?
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We need Ake, reports suggest he is happy to stay, so keep him. Same goes for Zinchenko