Just think our decision makers have so much faith in Penders longterm. I would say same as Estevao but with him we still stockpiling young talent in his positions.with Penders we seem to have ruled out young keepers for competition to him.
Lots of folks talking bout Sanchez saving his Chelsea career (atleast the #1 spot for now) at the CWC but his end of regular season was good too.
Maresca seems to have told him to lessen the short passes out the back which appears to have helped. I still expect him to have the odd howler here and there but with us being built now to combat the low block much better and being more potent in attack in general I'm expecting they won't hurt us as much as last season.
For us we would buy Simons for the 60m or so RBL want.
For BlueCo, at the back of their minds they probably weighing up if to go for that or 3 South American virgins.
I read we targeting another teen from Ajax but as he's 17 and not yet played for their 1st team probably not the one to play now...Aaron Bouwen is the name anyway.
Maresca has said in the past of the importance of a lefty at CB in his team for balance.
I reckon this is because of when Cucu is moving around the LCB is playing on the edge of the back line.
With LW/RW cutting inside on their inside foot it could be argued that lefties should play right side and righties play left side in defense but that's probably an whole debate in itself.
Simons and Guehi. Transfer fee should be about same we get for Jackson and Nkunku.
With if we insist on Garnacho,a Sacho type deal.
Still got some desirable to others deadwood to us to balance the books.
If I were to play Hato at CB it would be as LCB with Cucu inverted. So on the edge of a back 3 essentially. Not yet ready for one of 2 CB's .would expose things he needs to work on. But really he should mostly be just cover for.Cucu for now.
I think we'll either get Garnacho for around 26m upfront with upto 10m in bonuses.
Or a Sancho type deal.
Not what Man Ure might want but we should play hardball as they need to shift him more than we need to buy him.
We can easily walk away and stick with "Evil Saka".
I think main reason we looking at Garnacho is because of the good deal they think we can get for him.if that's not the case we'll walk away..