I guess what I don’t get is telling one of our better players (and he is that, he proved how good he is in many matches) that before he’s even played for the new manager that he doesn’t fit into his plans.
If we are trying to build a squad, you have to keep multiple players in your squad happy...
If that’s the case (and we don’t know it is) Given the injuries already, especially if Wieffer is still out, I wonder if telling him he’s not going to start might be a bit premature.
It just seems mental that we’d be trying to force him out. Why? I get he might not be in FH ideal squad plans but he’s hardly a terrible player and with injuries we still need him, that and we truly don’t know how the incoming players will play.
There’s nothing that indicates he’s troublesome...
I think I said it before but Gilmour seems to be the only player who can get the offer of a great move to a big club, one that plays Champion's League regularly and very recently won Serie A, yet people find ways to turn it into some kind of negative reflection on him and his football ability...
I disagree, sometimes it’s a case of making a transfer the least worst outcome.
I am quite sure we’d have happily kept many of the players we’ve sold over the years, Mac Allister, Cucurella, Caicedo etc but when you know they want to move on and it’s an upward move for their careers, we aren’t...
Not necessarily. There are plenty of players we’ve let go because good offers came, that we would rather have held onto.
They’ve consistently said they want to keep him, and I doubt they would keep saying it if he was going to be sat on a bench all season either. He obviously wants to go...
I’m going with some serious add-ons or a high% sell-on clause. I did see mentioned somewhere a possible loan of a midfielder and money, but I’ve not seen it mentioned since.
I just think we have to bear in mind we don’t know everything about what we may be get back for him.