Even with Bellerin out of the equation, AMN is still not good enough. Nothing against the lad, he’s a useful squad player. But to start week in week out for us? Nah you’re alright, I’d rather have DeAndre Yedlin playing there!
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Yup. Also, in the big picture we should be looking at selling assets that are redundant, likely to depreciate, and/or overvalued in the market. Bellerin is arguably all three. If we had a sugar daddy owner, we could keep him and see if he regains his top level because why not. But we need sales to finance reinvestment and we’re not going to generate those sales only by getting rid of players everybody wants rid of like Guendouzi, Mustafi, Sokratis, Holding, etc.
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Why?
So called better teams right backs include…Kyle Walker, Serge Aurier, Reece James, Wan Bissaka, and the only one I think is better than Hector, Trent Arnold at Liverpool…So why on earth sell a very good player…I hope Hector stays for a few years yet…
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Imagine being physically finished in your mid 20s
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I hope he stays. I honestly think he’s slowly recovering from the injury problems and recapturing some form.
I think selling Bellerin just gives us a problem we don’t need and that’s plugging the RB position. I like AMN, but if he’s good enough he’ll displace Bellerin naturally this coming season. Which I’m quite sure he probably won’t do
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Because we will need to sell at least some useful players to finance the reinvestments the squad really needs.
You don’t need to imagine, what did that feel like for you? Must have been tough :bellend:
Sell useful players to buy potential? No.
More like he’s having a few good games here and there like @Powderfinger said he’s a depreciating asset.
Even before the injury he was whack, so he’s gonna score a new bumper contract off the back of a couple decent/good games? We need to be ruthless.
One good season in how many years? Much better served to sell and reinvest.
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That’s the risk that the club needs to take if it is going to get back into the top 4 and challenge for the league title—assuming that they can’t afford to just buy some players when the requisite talent level already.
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This is the main thing with Bellerin for me. Does a player coming back from 9-12months of rehab have the same pace and stamina they had prior to rehab when they were peaking? I’d say, no that’s very unlikely and they need a season to get back upto pace.
The question is, can he get back to the pace he used to have? His surge created the goal against Chelsea. But it’s not peak Bellerin.
Not really sure how this makes sense - do we have other prospects for RB other than AMN?
Unless this is a good deal that funds other stuff, this seems like this creates another problem in an area where we aren’t great, but we aren’t sh*t either.
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If we can fetch 25m for him It’s a no brainer. We already know what he is and have players in the team that can at the very least replicate what he offers and a guy like AMN actually makes us better down that flank when he plays. So yeh cash in on him if it means investing in the midfield especially.
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Ossei-Tutu is also probably ready for first team action and could definitely be developed into a good player. Was playing on the wing in Germany and scored a good number of goals and assists. In a time like this we might have to save a bit of money and give a kid a shot. Think Nelson could probably do a job there as well.
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ohh lol completely forgot about him… haha!
Yeah then maybe this does, but yeah has to help us fund other stuff.
I agree with this.
Angers and pains me that that 25mil could have been so much higher a figure had we sold him just before his injury
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If we could jettison vegan boy for 25m and flip that for Buendia that would be the best bit of business this club have pulled since Santi Cazorla imo.
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