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sell both / one of sterling and kdb to fund mbappe and/or haaland?

Absolutely not, the team are on a 20 game winning run and even though the games are tightly packed the team are dealing with it amazingly. Why chuck a big spanner in the works.

Have we not the funds to buy outright?
If we get Haaland and/or Mbappe then it should be to replace Aguero. Not Sterling or KDB

No

Hypotheticaly speaking I would sell Sterling if it meant we would definitely get Haaland.
But probably not Kevin.

I’d sell Mahrez, 100%

Mase wrote:I’d sell Mahrez, 100%

Plus Mendy

Anybody over 29 can go, their best is behind them - for the avoidance of doubt that's Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Walker, Aguero, Gundogan, Mahrez ,Carson, and of course Bendy even though he's only 26 plus Garcia.

johnny crossan wrote:Anybody over 29 can go, their best is behind them - for the avoidance of doubt that's Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Walker, Aguero, Gundogan, Mahrez ,Carson, and of course Bendy even though he's only 26 plus Garcia.

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle and we would be silly to lose some quality coupledwith experience.
I also think you should refrain from biting down hard whilst your tongue is in your cheek :-)

john68 wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:Anybody over 29 can go, their best is behind them - for the avoidance of doubt that's Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Walker, Aguero, Gundogan, Mahrez ,Carson, and of course Bendy even though he's only 26 plus Garcia.

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle and we would be silly to lose some quality coupledwith experience.
I also think you should refrain from biting down hard whilst your tongue is in your cheek

Indeed.
Have we not just had 5 great years from Fern after 29

nottsblue wrote:

john68 wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:Anybody over 29 can go, their best is behind them - for the avoidance of doubt that's Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Walker, Aguero, Gundogan, Mahrez ,Carson, and of course Bendy even though he's only 26 plus Garcia.

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle and we would be silly to lose some quality coupledwith experience.
I also think you should refrain from biting down hard whilst your tongue is in your cheek

Indeed.
Have we not just had 5 great years from Fern after 29

Alright then but Baldy has to go

Nigels Tackle wrote:sell both / one of sterling and kdb to fund mbappe and/or haaland?

(A) we won't land both

(B) do we need to sell to fund Haaland, I seriously doubt it, but if we need to sell, then 3 or 4 other fringe players would be a better option rather than the two you've 'randomly' chosen.

(C) kdb is from the same mold as Sheringham IMO, his vision/creativity/pass won't diminish in his early 30's and he would still be one of the leagues best players if he loses his pace.

So would I? No.

But you crack on your with banal campaign against Sterling you have become a total and utter fucking bore.

When was the last time you actually posted something positive Mr Tickle????

If it HAD to be one or the other then Id have to toss a coin as either Mbappe or Haaland would take us to the top and I couldn't choose between sterling or KDB.

I think it would be heads we win and tails we win.

Cant we just bin Mendy and Mahrez ? that's an easier choice.

Mahrez is the obvious choice to sell to help raise funds for Haaland or Mbappe. We never should have bought him in the first place but he’s clearly a level down from Bernardo, Sterling, Foden etc. and we probably could get a reasonable fee for him.

Mendy needs to go also but I honestly don’t know who would pay anything for him. Getting rid of him would be to clear his wages from our books (and his ongoing medical bills).

I don’t think Mbappe will stay at any club more than a few seasons, so I’d not sell Kev or Sterling for him.

Haaland is the one I want, but I don’t think we’d need to give up our main guys for him. Sell a few fringe and get another sponsor in.

No , not at all . Drop the price at least to about 30 mill and then think about either of them . We have youngsters coming through that will fit into the system without having to pay outrageous prices breaking up the pay structure at the club - for players that might not actually "work" in the PL. Both would struggle to score against packed defending , just like our current batch of players.

It's a stupid kindergarden question!
For starters PSG Qataries will never sell to UAE owned club.
That's a fact that won't change. Just forget Mbappe..
Who's going to pay you over 100m for either Sterling or Kevin? Barcelona are skint, Real after Mbappe, can't afford multiple galacticos! PSG (see reason above). Bayern, not sure they'll pay over 100m. That leave us with premier League, I cannot see us selling to any of our domestic rivals.

The club has budgeted to go over 100m to buy desired striker next transfer window. We can afford Haaland without selling Sterling or Kev, as long as we're willing to bend over to his agent.

If the question is in theory if it meant getting haaland or mbappe I’d in theory be on board with the sale of sterling to fund it

Outcast wrote:It's a stupid kindergarden question!
For starters PSG Qataries will never sell to UAE owned club.
That's a fact that won't change. Just forget Mbappe..
Who's going to pay you over 100m for either Sterling or Kevin? Barcelona are skint, Real after Mbappe, can't afford multiple galacticos! PSG (see reason above). Bayern, not sure they'll pay over 100m. That leave us with premier League, I cannot see us selling to any of our domestic rivals.

The club has budgeted to go over 100m to buy desired striker next transfer window. We can afford Haaland without selling Sterling or Kev, as long as we're willing to bend over to his agent.

We should not bend over to his agent. Simply tell Haaland to dump his agent and then think about it . His dad made a stupid choice with this agent .

Haaland is good and would have been spotted inspite of the agent . He doesn't need him .

I wouldn't sell anyone except fringe players for Mbappe. I think he's a phenomenal player, but would bust our wage structure, and, if a scenario arose where we wanted to shift him on, we'd have to take a big hit (especially considering the only places he might go are Italy and Spain, with Italian clubs being notably spendthrift and the Big Two in Spain having to tighten their purse strings).

We should go all-out for Haaland, and if that means selling one of our starting XI that we have a more-than-competent back-up for, then so be it. However, I don't think it's necessary. We could probably fund the (excess of the) transfer fee by selling 75% of our players currently out on loan, if we can't afford it outright without selling anyone.