UFGN wrote:It would send the wrong message to potential recruits if we sold our best player now.
We are in (what passes for) a crisis by this club's standards. Only sell, ONLY sell, if it is to fund another forward of equally high profile coming in.... and even then, only if we have funds to in addition address our obviously weak areas.
Offer him a 3-year deal worth £350k a week. The accountants may burn. I don't care. We need to keep him.
We've been lucky over the years with Ozil, Alexis, and Auba. We might get lucky again. Then again, we might not. We might have Giroud.