21 May 2025 18:44:53
Andre Santos linked with a few clubs and a Spanish outlet reporting he has an asking price of £50 million (purchased for £18 million) . I hope we keep him but if that price is met will he be allowed to leave?
21 May 2025 19:04:38
RBD, his stats are off the scale. I believe that all players have a price but I wouldn’t sell him for less than £100m.
Apparently Arsenal are after him as well as a couple of Spanish clubs.
21 May 2025 19:08:37
RPD,
with Lavia injured for most of the season, Santos will be needed and who knows what will happen with EF.
21 May 2025 19:37:04
I agree Tom, £100 million. We do need to keep him though in my opinion even though Essugo is joining and is highly rated and his ceiling could be even higher!
22 May 2025 06:56:13
RPD
I think Essugo is off to Strasbourg with Santos coming to us.
22 May 2025 09:48:46
We must have Santos back. As many of us said, we probably should not have loaned him out given Lavia injury record but equally he has probably benfited from very successful game time at Strasbourg and if we do qualify for Champion's League it will have been worth it.
Whether in Champion's League or in UEFA League - must be the former! - if we want to challenge for Premier League or at least make Champions League qualification with greater ease than this season (or last) we need a squad with quality cover in all positions.
22 May 2025 10:05:06
That is not correct Bill. Amougou is off to Strassboug on loan. Essugo is coming straight into our squad and is a highly regarded beast of a no.6 who will compete with Lavia.
22 May 2025 13:09:08
I bow to your better knowledge RPD, question, would u sell Santos?
22 May 2025 14:43:56
No as I think we need 2 players in every position. A midfield pool of Enzo, Moises, Lavia, Essugo and Santos would be very strong.
22 May 2025 16:08:12
Absolutely agree RPD, we must find room for Santos.
22 May 2025 21:12:28
I don't see him being sold at all if anything enzo might push for madrid.
23 May 2025 11:31:29
Would be crazy to sell Santos. Can definitely see it happening though, as he was bought pre-Dumb and Dumber, and they seemingly don't want there to be any players in the squad unconnected to them. To Arsenal would break my spirit. Hope he gets a chance – like all of you I think we should have kept him in the squad last season (although it does seem the loan was good for his development I think he was PL-ready) . I know it's only preseason, but in the preseason under Poch him and Casadei together looked phenomenal.
23 May 2025 12:07:58
EdW, I assume your D&D remark is aimed at the SD’s. I am not sure how you have reached your conclusion about only wanting there choices in the squad. I don’t think Cucarella was one of there choices.
The squad, in my opinion correctly, needed changing so I guess they will take responsibility for the majority of the recent signings but I don’t think they had anything to do with the likes of Sterling or KK.
In my opinion it’s impossible to get every signing right and then on top of that we all have different opinions about players. So as fans we are rarely happy about everything!
24 May 2025 22:37:10
EdW, I too would be extremely unhappy if Santos was sold without ever playing for us. Leaving aside Dumb and Dumber don’t forget Even Dumber ( Ben Roberts) Sanchez’s mate who will be probably pushing for him to remain our No 1 keeper for next season.
05 Jun 2025 17:29:28
The prob TomB (oehly) is that they don't seem to be learning - will be another billion spent before we realise we need a keeper and a proven striker.