If you had to sell one CM...

[Nocando]

Bit drastic, no? Who would you replace them with?

A new team by the sounds of it. Siggy will need some company, that's for sure.

 

[E17yid]

I think I might be the only one who doesn't want Sig to go either. I know he's not in the OP but a lot of people seem happy for him to go even though if it wasn't for him we'd have got 0 points off the top 4 this season, not 1.

Pops up with some important goals. It's a fucking shit **** decision to make in all honesty. I like all of em. I'm a soppy bastard really.

 

[SpartanSpur]

The one we get the best offer for...

Paulinho - £25m+
Dembele - £15m+
Sandro/Capoue £10m+

Head says Dembele or Sandro (injuries), heart says Capoue (not attached to him yet, although like his potential)

I'd only sacrifice Paulinho for mega-money or Lukaku and cash, although looks like Chelsea are going for Cesc over Pauli now...

 

[tttcowan]

Dembele. Decent but we can't build a team around him. Also he plays with blinkers on like no other "attacking mid" I've ever seen.

 

[Shadydan]

I would sell Sandro, Holtby, Dembele , Bentaleb, Carroll, Livermore and possibly Capoue. They cannot take us forward. Need to cash in and buy.

Enough about Football manager, what about the real world?

 

[absolute bobbins]

Dembele with his dodgy hip has to be the one to go for me.

 

[JonnySpurs]

I wish there was an option for none of them, although I appreciate that would defeat the object of the original post, lol.

I adore Dembele but it likely would have to be him. Although I think an argument could be made for selling Sandro, simply because of his injury record.

I guess it depends on whether Poch doesn't like any of those 4 in his system and if he plans to bring someone else in, like Banega etc.

 

[DOX]

Sweet F*cksus, the riches of talent we have (had last season)... Dembélé can be liability, but on his day, he is second to none. Tough call.

 

[Hotspur33]

If I had to chose, I would probably sell Dembele. For similar reasons to the OP.

Although Levy may feel it is a good idea to cash in on Sandro as he is yet to complete a season without a bad injury.

 

[idontgetit]

Don't sell any

 

[VegasII]

None of those. I'd move Danny Rose to CM and then sell him as per the OP's question.

 

[mpickard2087]

Mr 27,000 touches of the ball before passing it.

It's a shame because with his skillset he could be an awesome player, but he just isn't cut out to play for our team in my opinion. You need one ball for him and then one for everyone else. His way of playing doesn't help us when we are liable to facing teams who pack the defence, because you want quick interchanges and moving the ball at tempo. To make matters worse, he could be very useful if he beat a few players to make space and then used the very capable shot that he possesses, but far too often lacks the killer instinct and lays it off for someone else.

 

[$hoguN]

The one we get the best offer for...

Paulinho - £25m+
Dembele - £15m+
Sandro/Capoue £10m+

Head says Dembele or Sandro (injuries), heart says Capoue (not attached to him yet, although like his potential)

I'd only sacrifice Paulinho for mega-money or Lukaku and cash, although looks like Chelsea are going for Cesc over Pauli now...

This should absolutely not be our way of thinking. Absolutely not. Awful in fact. We need to let go whichever midfielder(s) that does not fit into the system we want to play. The financials of which we can get the best offer for shouldn't even come into consideration.

 

[14/04/91]

Dembele with his dodgy hip has to be the one to go for me.

I'll be watching the World Cup very closely. If he manages to play 3 group games in 10 days it will raise a few eyebrows.

My concern & suspicion is that he nursed himself through this season with more than one eye on the WC. That does ask the question about the guy's committment and attitude (and yes I know he's not the only one). But if he has truly got a hip condition rather than injury then we may be better off selling.

He probably gets my vote in the poll. He frustrates more than he excites and if Poch goes for a high-tempo, high pressing game then he might be expendable.

 

[Coyboy]

If Dembele could release the ball sensibly and 5 seconds earlier each time he has the ball, he'd be a terrific player for us. That being his main weakness and that he has injury problems, make him the more disposable player. But Sandro has similar problems with injuries so it may be the medic's call as much as Pochettino's.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

This should absolutely not be our way of thinking. Absolutely not. Awful in fact. We need to let go whichever midfielder(s) that does not fit into the system we want to play. The financials of which we can get the best offer for shouldn't even come into consideration.

Yes, I agree in principal, above all it's most important who will fit in the best vs. who might not be too important for us.
However, there is a component to be evaluated based on the financial aspect. We paid substantially for Dembele (16M?), and if you are worried about recouping those money, post-WC might represent good timing.

 

[SpartanSpur]

This should absolutely not be our way of thinking. Absolutely not. Awful in fact. We need to let go whichever midfielder(s) that does not fit into the system we want to play. The financials of which we can get the best offer for shouldn't even come into consideration.

In an ideal would no, but if we are getting offers from Serie A of half our asking price and Chelsea slap £30m on the table for Paulinho (a he starts kicking up a fuss) what's the best course of action considering our need to reduce the numbers. We all admit we like all four of the players, financial will come into it IMHO unless we get fair offers for all four, I wouldn't want to sell Sandro or Dembele for under £6-8m to Italy if that was our only offer (doubt Levy would want to make a loss on Dembele either). I think all four could do a job for Poch, even Dembele who is probably the most surplus, so I can't really split them.

Edit. WindyCOYS did a blog on his interpretation of Poch's style and actually had Paulinho and Eriksen as players he couldn't quite fit in (mainly due to workrate, which I don't quite agree with personally), would you be happy to sell them if his interpretation turned out to be accurate? If Poch thinks one of the four is not compatible so be it, sell them as long as we aren't being mugged on the price.

 

[michaelden]

I don't have an idea yet what Poch's system is, and how he will play anyone, but in my view Dembele is the least valuable of the 4 to us and I would reluctantly let him go.

Would be a good move for him to Italy where they style of play is more suited to him than the PL IMO. The 'Trequartista', which is probably what he is mostly, is kind of out of Vogue here, but in Serie A he could eat them up.

Yip a Zidane type CM in Italy, controlling the play and late charges into the box, and very little defensive duties

 

[mill]

The op says 'if you had to sell' I think we need to sell one anyway we're not good enough or pay big enough wages to keep 4 such established players happy anyway. Fair enough we'll have 2 games a week but it's el not cl we're in

 

[Sir Henry]

55 people would get rid of Dembele and only 12 (so far) would get rid of Capoue ? That is one mind fuck right there.