I feel like people have lost their minds, I keep reading "We dont need" or "This means McNeil will be sold", they do realise we are 1 injury away from giving Doris the Tea Lady a run out, right?
Honestly, Id take just one of Fofana or Kubo, though Id much prefer Fofana. Getting at least one in makes our season easier and either are a significant upgrade.
I don't really understand why anyone would be against the idea of signing him on loan.
If we were having to pay 40m or something then yeah I would get the concern. But I don't think there's any chance of that happening
The risk with a loan is...
Get city to pay most of his wages, give them a decent t loan fee to offset against psr, pay their asking price inflated for Mcatee which goes entirely as psr.
Think we could be seeing some back scratching emerging here
I had this idea in my head years ago that Xhaka was this very average and overrated midfield player. Then saw him play a game live for Switzerland and he was the best player on the pitch by a mile. Absolutely ran the game. Mind you, that was...