Well we don't know that. We've seen PSG splash the cash, Chelsea have been linked to a variety of talented wide players (again), City are looking to change their team up abit and Madrid tend to spend big on emerging talent.
Like who and is available in the next 2 weeks
All those players you mentioned were not as highly rated as Garnacho bar greenwood . A successful club does not sell their most promising players, it’s really as simple as that. Obviously if a stupid offer comes in we’ll have to consider it providing we have a replacement lined up but anything under 70-80m shouldn’t even be entertained
It doesn’t suck. We’ve just been monumentally fecking awful in our transfers for over a decade and it’s finally caught up.
Agreed. We might not find someone who fancies over head kicks as much but Dwight McNeil is a more consistent winger than Garnacho and does the basics better.
Why should the fanbase know who we may potentially replace him with ?
it sucks because it's heavily skewed towards making clubs sell their young, homegrown talent in order to make up the deficit.
Who's rating Garnacho that highly? Because it seems to be a few people on this forum that have decided he's highly rated, no one else in football is saying Garnacho is one of the best young players in the world. Napoli, the only team interested in him, only rate him at £38m. We sold Greenwood for £30m and he had a load of baggage. City won the treble last season and sold some of their best young players season on season, developing your own players isn't a sign of a successful club, winning trophies is.
A decade of Antony, Sancho, Sanchez, Dan James, Mkitaryan, and Depay say otherwise.
Surely they're more likely to respond with "the lad who scored a goal in the FA Cup final vs our bitter rivals to help us win the trophy against the odds", or "the kid who the Puskas goal of the year award".
This.
I don't think anyone, including the reports, are suggesting he goes anywhere for less than something around £70m. I'm not sure why people are getting annoyed about the idea of selling him on the cheap when no one has said he's going to be.
Just because we've signed crap players doesn't mean good ones haven't been available during that time.
I was thinking this today. Wasn't PSR supposed to encourage clubs to develop their own players? Not sell them for max profit so they can buy someone else's better youth product?
You can say that about every position in the team. We've signed shite player because they were available, there's a reason we are where we are.
Steady on there, Buffalo Bill.
But we only have such a deficit because we've been utter shit at recruitment for years. A well managed club wouldn't be forced to sell their young players before they could buy
How is holding out for £70m on a youth player that hasn't even established himself as a first team regular yet, the same being forced to sell our young players?
Think that's the wrong way to look at it. We aren't contending for the league or UCL, and while we absolutely need reinforcements the availability of an immediate replacement in January shouldn't factor into a decision to sell.
20 year old wingers are generally not known for their consistency. It’s a bit weird to expect that from him.
Unless the offer stands until the summer, in which case, wait and sell then, but I doubt that is the case so just sell him now if the money is right. Seem's like Amorim wants a wingback/fullback anyway, not a winger.
Yeah we have to sell SOMEONE, but it certainly doesn't have to be Garnacho. However he is a player that has good value on the market and if the club evaluates that his fee is higher than what they internally value his abilities then it's worth offloading.
His G/A this season is heavily boosted by his Carabao goal involvments vs Barnsley and Leicester. That's 3 goals and 3 assists in 2 dead rubber games vs weak opposition. If you take those away, he's not really had exceptional output in either of his 3 senior seasons so far, and he'd be on 5 goals and 2 assists halfway through the season, which aligns closely with how he's produced in his previous two seasons...but that's totally fine, as he is a prospect like you said, and I'm not debating that.
I expect him to be able to do the basics consistently, which isn't a lot to be honest. I expect inconsistent performances however, he's young and learning still.
This. By no means should he be sold for a pittance, but he's not irreplaceable and for me £60m is worth it.
So bring back Phil Jones?
