- Aug 24, 2011
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My gut feeling is that this has essentially fallen into our lap with Juve offering him around, and we're weighing up how it might affect our other plans.
By all accounts we were already willing to keep Eriksen and bring in GLC for somewhere in the region of ~60m. I could see Levy considering being willing to chuck in an extra £20m to bring in an established world class player as opposed to a rising talent who would represent something more of a gamble. Dybala could feasibly make up the difference both in terms of how much he raises the profile of the club and in terms of the the prize money that his contributions on the pitch might generate.
What I can't see is us buying both Lo Celso and Dybala and not selling Eriksen or another major asset. Surely it's either we keep Eriksen and sign one of the two, or sell Eriksen and possibly try to sign both. Basically it'd boil down to whether we seek to bolster our squad depth in the CM playmaker position, which Poch has wanted to do for years now, or forego that in favour of bolstering our attack because a one-off opportunity fell into our lap.
By all accounts we were already willing to keep Eriksen and bring in GLC for somewhere in the region of ~60m. I could see Levy considering being willing to chuck in an extra £20m to bring in an established world class player as opposed to a rising talent who would represent something more of a gamble. Dybala could feasibly make up the difference both in terms of how much he raises the profile of the club and in terms of the the prize money that his contributions on the pitch might generate.
What I can't see is us buying both Lo Celso and Dybala and not selling Eriksen or another major asset. Surely it's either we keep Eriksen and sign one of the two, or sell Eriksen and possibly try to sign both. Basically it'd boil down to whether we seek to bolster our squad depth in the CM playmaker position, which Poch has wanted to do for years now, or forego that in favour of bolstering our attack because a one-off opportunity fell into our lap.