The lack of coherency in our recruitment strategy

[Roberts84]

Not sure I agree with this regarding Lucas.
firstly, I don’t think there’s another player who wants to be here more than him. He’s by far the most vocal in his love for the club (on social media at least), so moving him on might be hard.
not dismissing it entirely because lamela wanted to stay too, and eventually accepted the need to move on.
In terms of the continued rebuild of the squad, the players I expect we will look to upgrade will be:
Gollini -Johnstone
Rodon- pau Torres
Tanganga- de vrij
Doherty - lamptey
Winks- kessie
Kane backup- de ketelaere or David

Which would round the squad off pretty nicely.
Obviously some of these deals might not happen because 6 ins/outs is a lot

He may well love the club but we do need to look longer term. I like the fact that Lucas turns up for the big matches and is rarely injured. However, I do think the Kane back up will be a replacement for Lucas, otherwise that’ll be seven players for three attacking positions. It also depends if we switch to playing 352 with one behind two strikers, which will will not suit Lucas.

 

[mr ashley]

He may well love the club but we do need to look longer term. I like the fact that Lucas turns up for the big matches and is rarely injured. However, I do think the Kane back up will be a replacement for Lucas, otherwise that’ll be seven players for three attacking positions. It also depends if we switch to playing 352 with one behind two strikers, which will will not suit Lucas.

I take your point but you have to understand that, as people like Trix regularly say, if a player doesn’t want to leave they won’t.
regardless of how much you might want then to