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Christiffa25
Player Valuation: £35m
Thought Coleman and Baines were at the mauriding best again on Saturday. Not seen it for a few weeks, as if they have been shackled by tactics. That seemed to be taken away for this game, hope it remains.
TheBlueGibbon
Player Valuation: £40m
It tells us that Baines has been boss for the last few years and doesn't get injured very often, it doesn't really tell us anything about his back-up.
Jay
Player Valuation: £8m
I voted yes but only if it means we will buy Lukaku
Under Martines, both Baines and Coleman are less important to us as they were under Moyes, simply because during the Moyes era, over 50% of our attacking play was from both of them, now they are still attacking but the whole game is changed and as we saw on Saturday when we had to play almost 45 minutes without him, we attacked and scored 2 goals and his absence was not widely noticeable
Given his age and contract situation, anything above 15M is excellent, but as i said, only if the money will be used to fund Lukaku's transfer but i don't think Lukaku's transfer can happen in January, the chances of us signing Lukaku are slim right now, first he has to decide that he wants to move here, Chelsea must accept to sell him and we must have the money for the transfer and wages.
So selling Baines in January and keeping the money till the end of the season in order to buy Lukaku is not a good idea, we can miss out on Europe without Baines
Anyway the situation with Lukaku should be answered in January, if Chelsea end up spending big money on a big name striker then he will know his time is up there.
As i said, we all will accept a straight swap between Baines and Lukaku, but it's not as easy as it sounds, too many factors involved.
Under Martines, both Baines and Coleman are less important to us as they were under Moyes, simply because during the Moyes era, over 50% of our attacking play was from both of them, now they are still attacking but the whole game is changed and as we saw on Saturday when we had to play almost 45 minutes without him, we attacked and scored 2 goals and his absence was not widely noticeable
Given his age and contract situation, anything above 15M is excellent, but as i said, only if the money will be used to fund Lukaku's transfer but i don't think Lukaku's transfer can happen in January, the chances of us signing Lukaku are slim right now, first he has to decide that he wants to move here, Chelsea must accept to sell him and we must have the money for the transfer and wages.
So selling Baines in January and keeping the money till the end of the season in order to buy Lukaku is not a good idea, we can miss out on Europe without Baines
Anyway the situation with Lukaku should be answered in January, if Chelsea end up spending big money on a big name striker then he will know his time is up there.
As i said, we all will accept a straight swap between Baines and Lukaku, but it's not as easy as it sounds, too many factors involved.
Jay
Player Valuation: £8m
I didn't mean swap with Chelsea, i meant selling Baines and using the money to buy Lukaku
By god I'm blue
Banned at own request
My heart says no.
We are on the verge of something very decent here, we don't need to be selling our best players.
My head says if we spent that money on the side immediately to replace him and also bring in another very good player, then yes why not!
We are on the verge of something very decent here, we don't need to be selling our best players.
My head says if we spent that money on the side immediately to replace him and also bring in another very good player, then yes why not!
Dave Smith
Player Valuation: £50k
I'd sell, then use the money to buy Shaw.
Chang Elephant
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Think I'd settle for that
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
I voted no and was surprised to see that the result is so close
ijjysmith
Calm
Saints have no reason to sell.
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