I really like Tomori. Last summer people would have been delighted with him and you don't become bad player overnight. There are questions about Gibson and Brainthwaite mind.
There's no doubt that Tomori is the better and more advanced of the three, but then you would expect that with him being 2 and 4 years older than Gibson and
Branthwaite respectively. He would certainly offer more to the squad next season than either of our youngsters.
However he doesn't currently belong to us, and it would probably cost us north of £30m to make that happen at the end of the proposed loan spell, even if we built a clause into the agreement. We could effectively spend the season developing a Chelsea player when we could be developing one of our own.
If we were in Europe next season, I can understand the need for a larger squad and the safety net of having an extra senior defender. But we aren't, so personally I am happy going into the season with 3 senior CBs and one of our youngsters as back up. Some people would argue we need extra because Mina is injury prone, but he played in 29 league games last season, which isn't that bad in fairness.
I'm not against having Tomori per se, I think he's a good player and will get better. I just believe we should be thinking longer term. Even if the intention is to get a fixed price buy clause built into the agreement, I also think going after somebody like Sarr, available on a free, represents better value. Arsenal won't be interested now they've seemingly signed Gabriel and Chelsea have turned their attentions to Thiago Silva.