NQT said:
jeffmr2 said:
If he's considered good enough for Chelsea then surely thats sufficient proof he's good enough for us to to all we can to hold onto him.Our second best striker in my opinion.
Without reading the whole seventeen pages, the reason Chelsea will be interested is that they need a certain percentage of English or homegrown players in their Champs league squad. That's the main reason they'd come in for him.
Don't forget Chelsea haven't even got a manager at the moment so if he did go there who's actually making the decision?
Chelsea have been interested in Sturridge for years, it's not been initiated just to satisfy a quota. Chelsea have made successful signings independent of the manager, like Robben, Cech and Bosingwa, we have a director of performance and recruitment, Michael Forde, who was speaking about Sturridge in January, without naming his name, I can post the link if you want.
The idea is to purchase players who have high goals and assists, and at 19 he singled out Sturridges stats for both goal to minutes on the pitch, and Assists to minutes on the pitch.
He didn't mention Sturridge's name because apparently they were talking with the player. but he said an English 19 year old outside of the top 4, with impressive goals and assists to minutes.