catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
The difficulty with the fee is he is probably worth an awful lot to us. He fits our team, brings the best out of Michael Keane and has settled in. There will be a healthy premium we are prepared to pay for those things.
It's hard to believe he is only 24. I think he could go on to be one of the leading defenders in the league if he stays here with us. To me he doesn't really have any weaknesses. In truth I'm amazed Chelsea have disregarded him, as a back 3 of Zouma, Rudiger and Christensen could become one of the best in Europe if they built an understanding.
Chelsea have a dilemma really. If we will go above 30 this is likely to be optimum value for them by some distance. If he sits around in and out of there team for another season, you can guarantee next summer the figures being bandied about will be around half that, or they will be back to loaning him out. They are now a pretty well run club, and I think, in spite of the difficulties in the market they will look at things and say 30+ million now is just too good to turn down. As has been said they have the likes of Hector they can bring back to be cover and Tomori will likely feature under Lampard. They also then have Christensen, Luiz and Rudiger all ahead of that, so they are hardly short of options.
It's hard to believe he is only 24. I think he could go on to be one of the leading defenders in the league if he stays here with us. To me he doesn't really have any weaknesses. In truth I'm amazed Chelsea have disregarded him, as a back 3 of Zouma, Rudiger and Christensen could become one of the best in Europe if they built an understanding.
Chelsea have a dilemma really. If we will go above 30 this is likely to be optimum value for them by some distance. If he sits around in and out of there team for another season, you can guarantee next summer the figures being bandied about will be around half that, or they will be back to loaning him out. They are now a pretty well run club, and I think, in spite of the difficulties in the market they will look at things and say 30+ million now is just too good to turn down. As has been said they have the likes of Hector they can bring back to be cover and Tomori will likely feature under Lampard. They also then have Christensen, Luiz and Rudiger all ahead of that, so they are hardly short of options.