DiamondGooner wrote:If todays reports are to be believed the direction has gone from ............
Selling AMN, to now keeping AMN and selling Bellerin.
Maybe that's because we're only being offered £15m from Wolves for AMN and we feel his stock will rise this year with England but Bellerin is fetching £25-£30m so not worth selling AMN?
Tbh I think they're performing at an equal level so I don't mind either, the one that bothers me is Cedric, how the fk do we have a Fullback who can't defend? waste of wages.
Tierney, AMN, Bellerin would of been solid Fullback options especially as AMN can play both Left and Right.
I think Cedric was brought in because we anticipated Maitland-Niles' departure, who reportedly didn't want to play at full-back and Arteta didn't seem to rate him. Sign we've signed Cedric, that's obviously changed dramatically.
For this summer, the club is probably open to selling either Maitland-Niles or Bellerin if the right bid comes in. We have a lot of deadwood we are struggling to offload and we almost certainly need to raise funds from player sales if we're to land a Partey or an Aouar. We're relatively well covered in the full back positions, with Cedric has a handy backup, so if we receive a good bid for either Maitland-Niles or Bellerin it makes sense to sell so that we can invest in the midfield.
Bellerin will likely command a higher fee and supposedly has the likes of PSG and Juventus sniffing around him, so I imagine he'll go if we receive a bid of £30m or more. Wolves won't be able to pay a similar fee for Ainsley, who's value has probably risen due to his England call-up, so he'll probably be the one more likely to stay.