The Next Transfer Window
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French media reckon he will be a player in great demand next summer.
Fofana is City’s number one target in their pursuit of a new central defender, but their attempts to sign the wantaway teenager are being knocked back by the Ligue 1 club and their manager Claude Puel.
L’Equipe report that the latest offer, submitted on Monday night, is City’s third to Saint-Etienne, with previous bids going in at €25m (£23m) and €28.5m (£26.2m)
It appears even the "top" clubs like to try it on a bit. Tarkowski wouldn't have much of a sell on value. Rugani would be a loan deal whilst Fofana rips up the Premier League and we sell him for a massive profit to a Champions League team in a few years. It's a no brainer isn't it?
Chelsea will sell defender Antonio Rudiger to raise funds to sign West Ham's Declan Rice, according to the Daily Express.
Sky Sports News reported yesterday that Rudiger is considering his future after being left out of the squad for Sunday’s defeat at Liverpool.
Rudiger wants to play regular football to secure his place in Germany’s squad for next summer’s European Championships. If Chelsea do allow him to leave, it is thought they would prefer he didn’t go to a Premier League rival. Rudiger’s contract is up in the summer of 2022
To get the best out of Havertz and/or Mount, they will have to play 4231 with one of those 2 in the #10 position
So if you assume at least one of those two will play down the middle (maybe both?), that leaves Rice up against Kante, Jorginho, Kovacic, Loftus-Cheek and Barkley for 1 or 2 spots
Or he could play as a CB in a back 2, which Rice hasn't done since he was in the youth team, and even then he's up against Silva, Zuma, Rudiger, Tomori and Cristensen
Also I don't believe that Rice is asking for a transfer
The fact Prem clubs give such lucrative contracts, potential foreign buyers can never match them so the clubs are having to still pay a proportion of their wages, similarly to how we got rid of Roberto
Obviously they are on another planet than us, but you see Barcelona letting players (good ones) go for a couple million here or there, but apparently they have managed to trim their wage bill by £35mil per year
The Express says that Rice will tell the club he wants to go to Chelsea but their source is "transfer expert Fabrizio Romano" who has been wrong in the past.
I'd be surprised if Rice wanted to leave knowing the situation he could be leaving us in at this point in the window. It'd be so remarkably stupid on our part to sell him at this point, when
happen. If Rice were to get a serious injury we would be in a right mess, where
as if we get say £75,000 for him, we could get three decent players that we need,
and if one of them gets injured,like Rice, we still have two decent players.
On paper, I don't disagree. The idea of selling your top asset for as much as possible to rebuild the squad is a sound one, and something that clubs like Leicester, Ajax, Dortmund and others have made a real success of over the past however many years.
However, a lot of clubs muck it up by bringing in too much dross instead of the quality they need. No part of me trusts David Sullivan with that money, and I truly believe it would be another Rio Ferdinand situation, where we replace genuine quality with garbage like Titi Camara and Rigobert Song.
At the moment there's very little indication that we're going to be anything more than a mid-table club for the foreseeable future so it shouldn't be a surprise if Rice decided that he needed to leave to advance his career.
Sad but that seems to be the situation.
If this was really happening, they would've sold him early on or planned purchases ahead of his sale. The money will be completely wasted and/or can't be used until January.
Where are these decent players we can pick up for £25M a piece? And if we haven’t picked up one this window, what makes you think we’ll be able to get three?
Sale of Rice:-
- "The player wanted to move and we respected that wish"
- "It was in the best interests of the team to sell and reinvest the money into player acquisitions"
- "Chelsea's offer was too good to refuse"
- "David Moyes had indicated he would give his blessing to sanction the deal"
Followed by:-
- "Unfortunately we were unable to land our targets"
- "Money was there for reinvestment but David decided he was happy with the squad he had"
- "With Diop and Cullen returning from isolation and Wilshire recovering from his injury trouble they will be like a new signing"
- "We felt the fee being demanded exceeded our valuation of the player"
"We really tried but just couldn't get it over the line"