Don't know if this has already been posted. But looking at 3.5 mil loan fee, 30 mil full asking price.
how could anyone else post it when you've just made it up?
Its a half decent educated guess i think.
Digne has about £7mil book value...if we loaned him for a full season we could have a 'free' player in terms of FFP payments....half a season £3.5mil.
I don’t understand the Chelsea links. They still have Alonso and Chillwell will be back at some point. If he stays in England, weirdly the only place that makes sense to me is City.
Digne is a better left back than Chelsea's players...he's a top class player who improves most other teams.
Why the hell would we want to loan him out.
I can just about get my head around selling him for a profit and bringing a younger cheaper player in his position but a loan makes no sense unless it is to Benitez's ego.
Only logic is to use a loan payment to sign someone...£3.5mil in could mean £17.5mil out this window.
Wouldn't be surprised if Chelsea offered a swap of Digne for Chillwell and we agreed. This would be conditional, of course, on our medics not touching Chillwell.
Apart from their 'big money, big salary, stars' theres not many I'd want in a swap deal.
Imagine if we could swap Digne for Lamptey and Livramento today...
That Chalobah is one i mentioned as highly rated 2-3 years ago...if we do a deal with Chelsea we should ask for one or two youth players.