Yeah if the figure is as low as 40 then im happy to make the stand that he stays tbh
Saves us having to replace him now, we can focus our resources on midfield and attack.
But we have to sell Toby in order to provide us the resources, and squad space, to strengthen other areas.
Do we? Since when?
Everyone is talking about either a straight swap with Martial, or using the Toby money to buy DeLigt as a replacement (net 0 virtually).
So why would we need to sell him for resources to strengthen other areas?
And squad places - there are plenty of non HG Id see leave instead of Toby if we could keep him.
Your point was that it's ok if Toby stays and we use our resources to strengthen other areas. My question is what resources if we don't manage to sell Toby or anyone else?
Let's take the straight swap with Martial. That's great but it shows Toby has to go there in order for Martial to come to us. Selling Toby provides the resources to buy Martial
If Toby stays, who is else is even close to moving on before the window closes to give us the resources to buy who we want?
If we do keep him, can he leave for £25m in January or is it only next summerI agree, if it's £40m then I'd rather we just kept him and lose him for £25m in a year's time.
If we do keep him, can he leave for £25m in January or is it only next summer
If we hold onto him - then
1 - we sell abroad after transfer window closes here for 40m stopping his agent forcing our hand to sell to Utd for the same price. This may mean that we fudge Utd over and Mourinho explodes and walks. However this would leave us short, and mean utd come straight for poch
2 - we sell in jan when there is a reduced risk of needing him depending where we are in the league, and injury situation
3 - we just let him go for 25mil next year and accept the loss as it seems only one PL team seem to want to offer over 40mil
4 - a miracle happens and he signs a new contract
If we hold onto him - then
1 - we sell abroad after transfer window closes here for 40m stopping his agent forcing our hand to sell to Utd for the same price. This may mean that we fudge Utd over and Mourinho explodes and walks. However this would leave us short, and mean utd come straight for poch
2 - we sell in jan when there is a reduced risk of needing him depending where we are in the league, and injury situation
3 - we just let him go for 25mil next year and accept the loss as it seems only one PL team seem to want to offer over 40mil
4 - a miracle happens and he signs a new contract
Next year at £25m we will have more people wanting to buy him and (I may be wrong) we can still decide who we are happy to take the £25m from