Ok - our top 3 players have all been linked with circa £100m moves away Bruno Isak Gordon If we were to sell one, which player would you be least gutted about being sold?
Bruno - suspect Tonali is going to better than him. Also suspect he is the more likely to leave so might as well start trying to live with it.
Bruno for me. Hell I don’t want him to go. But if it was a choice out of the three it would have to be him simply because. We would get a better FFP reward for selling him since he cost the least. We would probably get more for him than the other two. We have a lot of CM already. You can’t buy goals and Isak gets them. Gordon is dynamic and the future. I think he’s the youngest.
It's an awful question but we're no different to the clubs like Villa and Palace who have to sell their best players because of the anti competition rules.
We have no idea whether we do need to sell though. Proof will be in the pudding. Only way we will know is if a) clubs says that or b) we sell a high value player and bring in a lower value one.
Gun to my head I think Bruno in all honesty, others are younger with higher ceilings for me. Then you have the issue of replacing them for Bruno you have Tonali, Willock, Joelinton, Anderson, Longstaff, Miley is cover enough for CM. Out of our wingers though Gordon is way out in front of Barnes, Murphy, Almiron and Isak is clear of Wilson with one leg so would be a real problem to lose either of them whereas Bruno has cover already. As GG say he is also the most profitable one so if you can get the £100m reinvested well it could go a long way towards replacing a lot of the dead wood with a few smart buys - maybe even another £35-40m CM who's as good as him. My only hope would be that he goes back to France with PSG or to Madrid (the only clubs who can really afford him).
I think we'd get a higher bid for Isak and around the same as Bruno for Gordon, but your point about the original purchase costs is a good one. If guess we'd turn a £65million profit on Bruno. Probably £55 million on each of the other two.
The press are going to just keep on stirring the pot about Bruno/Isak/Gordon going. Nothing they say, even a flat denial will change that. It's part of being who we are and the size we are now. The latest rumour about Gordon is just plain bullshit. He's an evertonian, absolutely loves it here.... the dippers have no manager....most expect them to slip away from the top too..... Next!
And Also Bruno is the one out of those 3 that probably wont be worth his price tag also. Feels like a 50m player that could be sold for 100m.
I'd hate to part with any of those three, but could possibly cope better if Isak was the one sold. His general fitness may be his biggest weakness, and after this season, we need dependable talent.
Just think Bruno the cover we have in CM is imperative - selling Isak leaves us with Wilson up top on his own - yeah we could go buy another £60m forward but if it's Bruno - if you get the £100m for him you can literally split £30m young CM, £30m back up Cf, £30m young Gk plus Kelly and Tosin in to the defense on free's (£10m) and you've broken even. While I'm an advocate for Ramsdale I wouldn't entertain him as art of any swap deal if Arsenal were after Bruno - first and foremost I'd hate to see him stay in the EPL but equally there are probably better value young keepers to find out there.
Id be disappointed if we lost Isak and absolutely gutted if we lost Gordon. If someone offered good money for Bruno, I dunno, wouldn't be so sad.
