This has nothing to do with a shop window. He's only being "recalled" because we don't have fit CB's. Fofana is a walking injury every other game, Badi can't stay fit and Tosin is injured. We are down to Chalobah and Josh.
Imagine if he did come back into the team and put in a decent shift, would just prove that our defense is actually nowhere near top 6 quality other than Cucurella, Colwill (excluding Reece as he played more midfield than defense).
Maybe a finance issue in terms of European competitions next season
Guessing the club thought they could get him for a reasonable fee (40 mil) but Rennes want 60 million.
Yeh I don't see him getting sold but if we're still floating around that 6th spot next season, it wouldn't surprise me if he started looking around.
There's a market for nearly every player, just depends if the fee is reasonable or not.
It just sounds like the board didn't want to keep Maresca for that long but they gave him time due to the club world cup win.
Maybe similar to Di Matteo staying after the UCL win
I doubt Cucurella would turn down the chance to go to City and compete for titles/trophies.
The interesting part would be, whats a reasonable fee for him? City may try to offer "youngsters" as part of the deal as Shields can't resist a City player.
Anyone could have taken Semenyo but no one else put a bid in for him.
Liverpool were on a massive spending spree last summer, not sure why they went hard for Isak when Semenyo was keen and there for the taking.
As for City, I would expect two of those names listed to be moved on in the next window.
We had a decent spine but how many of them are actually fit?
Reece - Fofana - Colwill - Cucu Caicedo - Lavia
Lavia and Fofana's injury records are a joke, how do you spend 120 million and they can't play 3 games in a row.