He played a part....I'm not knocking us just pointing out how hard the premier league is without some of our top players....despite his couple of injury problems this season it's been a good job we had for 60% of the games...if we sold him , we would need to buy another decent winger....
Yeah. And he's now 62 years old - but still quick...
Exactly. It’s absolutely brutal in that sense. For us, a Silva or Guedes flopping has ramifications to our financial standing for years, yet for a Man City or a Man United it’s a drop in the ocean.
Yes....RAN is a funny one......don't get me wrong ..I nw way want him to be sold......But if you looked at it , in some ways he has peaked enough for us to make a big profit, you could argue it maybe our peak time to do it , from a business perspective..... especially as it's only 12 months since he looked like leaving.....so you could argue very good time to cash in ...12 months ago we would have all been chuffed at 60m for Rayan..
What do we expect for free agent though? We want proven players pay proven prices which we did previously and we aren’t the club of 2018/19 anymore Hobbs has stated. The new revolution is exciting. Semedo never scores anyway not hard to find an attacking replacement
I think chiquinho is ideal to add a bit of depth. I could live with Bueno replacing RAN as the wingback if we keep the same sort of system. But we’d need a quality first choice front 3. Cunha and RAN plus a proper good nine could work or play 433 and have Toti as your left back.
I expect that if we sold RAN for £50m+ that his replacement wouldn't be a free agent from West Ham's reserves is what I'm saying.
To be fair people look back on the 20/21 summer as a failure due to the outlay on Silva, Semedo and even Hoever but we also added RAN (initially on loan), Toti and Vitinha (again on loan).
Even more so given that Arsenal want £40m for him. Might as well pack it all in if that happens.
You do realise we want defenders to be able to do other things apart from score, right?
Exactly.....
Great news for us and Guedes! Hopefully they cover is hook value. Maybe forge a good link with them take someone off them?
Not sure, I think it can be done right but we need fire power and that’s where our money should go
Cant see us getting more than £10 mil for him tbh even that id take in a heart beat
Might be something in the keeper from Villareal...swap deal in essence...
If he wanted to be here id maybe agree,but shown no desire to stay imo
I was about to ask who they had who we might want when l saw your post.
if we cant get cool hard cash that works for us surely it would be better to get decent player or two in exchange?
£100M for the three, jobs a good un....
If it has any legs, you can guarantee that Fabio will be looking to dive over them.
Still had an option which we didn't take up.at worst we'd have made a massive profit
Yes ok re midfield replacements but Silva was supposed to be the eventual replacement for Jimenez, as was Sasa. Guedes arguably was a belated attempt to make up for loss of Jota.
The rumour was £40m for Sa, Semedo would have to be similar or more and £15/20m for Silva is well within what they're silly enough to pay for a "generational " talent!
This is the problem with the suggestions of selling Cunha. Every single club is looking for a goalscoring striker, and they're like hens teeth! The rest of the team is all reasonably replaceable. I'm not suggesting that for one moment, but we wouldn't necessarily need to break the bank on replacements. Strikers are a totally different story. So unless someone wants to give us £100m+ we shouldn't even be entertaining any such suggestions.
Or Talisca.
Perhaps we could take one or two of the players who want out of Saudi subject obviously to wages....
Saint Maximin and Mitrovic are probably the only two we'd even have the slightest hope if signing if they agreed to major pay cuts.
Although I could definitely see a world where Ait Nouri could play wide left in a front three, Gary seems pretty clear that he wants Cunha on the left so they’d be vying for the same position… unless we are assuming Ait Nouri can seamlessly transition from being a left back or left wing back into being a right winger… that seems a stretch to me.
