He wouldn't have come here being content with being a back-up for our current centre pairing. If he had signed I and probably others would have taken it as a clear sign that Kayal was off.
Not a bad theory, but big spanner in the works is that Rhodes is supposedly on over 40K a week. Signing him would smash the clubs wage structure open.
If Boro were going to lose a striker would expect it to be Nugent.
He has. Nir Bitton his international team mate still plays for Celtic... apparently they're open to offers for him, wouldn't mind if he also made his way down to the south coast.
There's a lot of parallels between Chuba and Benik Afobe. Both products of the Arsenal academy, both can play up front or anywhere in the three behind. Both have similar records at England youth level and maybe more reassuringly Chuba's minute to goal ratio last season is comparable to Afobes...
Kind of player I'll be very happy to see go elsewhere, primarily as he wouldn't bring anything different to the team. Thankfully both Derby and Wolves are joint favourites to land him according to the Derby Telegraph.
Words fail me... multi-millionaire footballer is found guilty in court of tax fraud, club then starts a campaign asking fans to express sympathy for him
https://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/first-team/news/2016-2017/-weareallleomessi-show-your-support