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I never wanted him to leave, very much felt like he was as good as we were going to get. And as above, turns out he would've been the perfect player for Conte...
The main thing that irked me though was this idea of paying off his contract and just letting him go for nothing - he cost £25m and was a pretty good player - why did we cost ourselves so much money just to get rid of him?
Because Emerson is such a fantastic player we simply had to make room