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Thankyou for adapting him to the Premier league for us.
. We don't and never have let players go cheaply. No chance are we going to start now.
You get an average player with potential to fill his position until the end of the season, plus 10 million in the bank to reinvest. At the end of the season, you will also have a player who has adapted to the first team or a saleable asset
I've constantly said if Ayew was to go , not let him go to a relegation team , said the same thing about Shelvey .
It's difficult to have a debate when you keep shifting position. Whatever your views I firmly believe that you don't sell a proven goalscorer when you're in the ****. There's a £120M bigger picture here, and to say that "Gayle, Eder and Borini would do the job" is nonsense. Eder hasn't proved himself yet despite having chances, Borini has been shown wanting at this level and Gayle isn't getting games at Palace for a reason. Big, big risk that may or may not pay off. POTENTIALLY a good signing if Ayew stays.
That's the board talking and my lips moving Aussie , if someone offers 18 million for Ayew ..the board WILL sell himIt's not panic, it's common sense, but we're still right in the mire. You say you are flogging a dead horse but it's you that is being inconsistent.
Your response to a Sunderland fan's post earlier about selling Ayew to them was this: "18 million , keep Borini ....SOLD !"
Now you're saying that you never stated that you would sell him to a relegation rival.
Unlike you Breezy, I CAN actually think of a worse outcome than Ayew going to Sunderland. It's him scoring the goals to keep them up whilst we go down.
Personally, I would not sell Ayew to the Mackems. Whilst I don't think he fits in with our "normal" style, it could well be that he will be "perfect" for the way that Guidolin wants to play. Indeed, I thought that Ayew did really well last Sunday - let's not forget that he was responsible/involved in both goals against Everton.
Taff is right. Firstly, you don't know that Ayew will be sold if £18M is offered. I actually think they won't sell this window unless it's well above that and even then they'd have to think twice, but that's my opinion.
I have also been dead set against selling Ayew - but you know that too so I'm unsure what point you're trying to make. Just another barb, I guess. Have you decided whether you'd sell him to a relegation rival yet? First you say you wouldn't then you say sold!
Of course I don't know if the board will sell Ayew for 18 million ....I'm not a board member Am I .You're very glib in your old age, Breezy.
Re the 'selfish' thread, as you well know I was merely pointing out that Ayew has had opportunities in recent games to play a through ball but has gone on alone and lost the ball. Seems others agree with that observation.
Lastly - if you think there's goals in that lineup well that's your opinion too. Borini is completely overrated by our fans in my view and I think there's more goals in the current Sunderland lineup + Ayew. It won't be just madness to sell him to them - the Board should be taken away by guys in white coats if it happens.
No there is no goals in that team apart from Siggy from the penalty spot or free kicks. Borini has 9 in 43 where as you are prepared to give them Ayew who has 8 in 22. good move that would be, he is the only player in our side who looks like he could score and we get rid of him for one who cant score in a brothel. No thanks.
Borini would play better for us imo (Again , I'm not endorsing this deal )
The relevance is we sell to survive , your getting to be a piece of toilet paper stuck to my shoe Aussiie ...lolTop post, tlf.
I'm not sure about Eder, Phil. He's got a good record at International level but in fairness hasn't played too much for us. Can anyone say he's been given a fair crack of the whip here? Not really. But Borini? Nah. Not for me.
As for saying we'd be £30M in the red without the sale of Allen and Bony, that's a facile argument Breezy, and again I'm not sure of the relevance. We'll probably be more than that in the red if we're relegated. We've bought and sold well and hopefully will continue to do so, but if you sell arguably your best player when you're in a relegation fight you're asking for trouble because (1) He may be going to a relegation rival, (2) you probably won't get equal or better in the January window and (3) any replacement will take time to bed in. Time we haven't got.
You can spin the positives on Ayew going as much as you like and you have a point about money and the system but neither would compensate us if the unthinkable happens. Yes, he's THAT important to us. Like most Swans fans I will be absolutely distraught if he goes at all - but particularly to Sunderland.
The one thing we can agree on is that it's unlikely to happen.
Because he is a midfield player playing out of position because our strikers are so bad, yet in a side that isn't scoring many goals he has managed to get 9 not a bad return. Bony only managed 9 by the ends of January albeit in 20 games and we were scoring more last season, so Ayew's return whilst playing out of position for parts and in a team creating very little, his return is the only thing keeping us away from relegation, to get rid of him would be suicide.
