This mass exodus story is good. Who do they think is going to demand a way out for the sake of two years of champions league football?
Aguero isn’t going to leave before his contracts up, Jesus has been waiting to take the reigns from him for a while, would be daft for him to leave when that’s about to happen.
Sane seemingly already wants out, this may cement it but we’ve surely been preparing for his potential departure. Sterling? Can’t see him wanting to go abroad to suffer racist abuse on a weekly basis and there’s no way he goes to a league rival. Mahrez? Just settling, long enough contract and wouldn’t be irreplaceable anyway.
Kdb just recently said how comfortable he is here, he’ll be captain after Fernandinho I suspect that will satisfy him. Bernardo seems equally happy here, assurances will be made to ensure they’re both happy. gundogan new contract, Foden is here for life, half the defence is facing the chop anyway and Ederson is basically on a lifetime contract.
Add to that the fact the majority are young enough to wait two years and still not be near their prime, I really don’t understand this mass exodus idea, it’s obviously just to make headlines but it makes no sense and gives their chip paper business no credibility at all.
Our global appeal won’t be dented much either, players go to clubs out of the champions league all the time, literally every big club other than us in this league have spent time outside the champions league in the last decade and it’s not harmed them anywhere near as much as is claimed.
the only thing that hurts us is the lost revenue reducing our budget. we could potentially fuck ffp off for 2 years but we would still need to comply when we’re back in so we’ll no doubt stay in line which simply means we need to start making some serious money on our cast offs to help us out for the next few windows
