Rumoured Luke Shaw

[Polo7 3,496]

He's worth £40m, a 'one off' transfer fee to secure that position for 12 years and the home-grown quota (<4/8 atm). But that's not the issue, it's the wages over a 'potential' 12 year period and how that effects other players on less. That's the only 'would be' pitfall..

If we could guarantee he will be world class for those 12 years then yea he is worth it.

[pakito 17]

Out of his depth against Ecuador

[Polo7 3,496]

Out of his depth against Ecuador

Definitely worth £30m because he is young and English. What a load of tosh!

[zolayes 14,489]

Definitely worth £30m because he is young and English. What a load of tosh!

I heard he was worth 40million well TX reckons so

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

I heard he was worth 40million well TX reckons so

Remember best English LB for the next 15 years LOL, could turn out a Konchesky for all we know

[The Skipper 20,609]

One game... You lot are funny.

[Polo7 3,496]

One game... You lot are funny.

That's the thing, he hasn't had many great performances this season. What's funny is how shaw and 30m are in the same sentence.

[zolayes 14,489]

One game... You lot are funny.

what is funny is that we HAVE international LBs already on our books .. yet they don't seem valued :D

[LukakutoStamford 779]

Give me Rodriguez he doesn't come with the English surcharge and I like him better than Shaw and he's still only 21

[Term-X 7,891]

Give me Rodriguez he doesn't come with the English surcharge and I like him better than Shaw and he's still only 21

English surcharge?

We have 4 players to fill the home grown quota this season, we need 8.

1. Zouma

2. Terry (33 years old!!!!)

3. Cahill

4. Lukaku ('if' he doesn't get sold with Ba & Torres holding on)

Ake & Kalas 'should' (for their development) be on loan again, same goes for Piazon and co. There comes a point when we can't keep buying random foreign players. There is an agenda amongst some on here, wanting us to become like what Arsenal used to be, an anti-English club.

[Fernando 6,585]

English surcharge?

We have 4 players to fill the home grown quota this season, we need 8.

1. Zouma

2. Terry (33 years old!!!!)

3. Cahill

4. Lukaku ('if' he doesn't get sold with Ba & Torres holding on)

Ake & Kalas 'should' (for their development) be on loan again, same goes for Piazon and co. There comes a point when we can't keep buying random foreign players. There is an agenda amongst some on here, wanting us to become like what Arsenal used to be, an anti-English club.

Yes but only if they are good like Barkley.

[mediator 2,026]

Zouma won't never be homegrown you know

HG for next season :

Cahill

Terry

Lukaku

Moses (6th am)

Fabregas (may be)

PVA

[Viper22 2,418]

Zouma won't never be homegrown you know

HG for next season :

Cahill

Terry

Lukaku

Moses (6th am)

Fabregas (may be)

PVA

To my knowledge I think the fact that Zouma is U21 means he doesn't have to be registered. Therefore we can leave a space in the selection which counts as 1 towards our HG quota. So essentially Zouma will count as HG player for next season.

[The Skipper 20,609]

To my knowledge I think the fact that Zouma is U21 means he doesn't have to be registered. Therefore we can leave a space in the selection which counts as 1 towards our HG quota. So essentially Zouma will count as HG player for next season.

Nah, U21s don't count towards HG status either. We can have as many of them as we want - so essentially they aren't taking any space in the squad whatsoever.

[Viper22 2,418]

Shaw and Fabregas would go towards filling our quota if we signed them. Along with Zouma, Cahill and Terry as some others have mentioned.

If we get a HG 2nd choice GK for next season (assuming either Cech will be sold to facilitate Courtios or Courtios will be loaned again/sold) that'll be our 6th, then hopefully Lukaku can be our 2nd choice striker and then we only need 1 more to fill the quota. Maybe have Kakuta or Moses as a HG squad player. They're both pretty useless anyway so it's not like you'd be hindering the development of a player with top potential.