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Agree- it’s a conundrum. I’m hoping all the younguns get rolling and push Benta down to a backup 6 option. I want to see a proper 4-1-2-3 type cm with bergvall and sarr at the 8, and 4-2-3-1 with sarr/berg next to palh, and 4-3-3 with gray, berg and sarr flanking palh
You give a new deal as a minimum to protect his future sell on value, even if you’re looking to upgrade his position.
I understand this but should have moved him on in the summer but appreciate Frank wanting to have a look pre season. My bigger issue with our challenges in moving players we no longer need on in the country club set up with our training ground facilities that players don’t want to leave.
Fixed it for you.
No one will be loaned.
yep, juventus were spot on when they priced him up at 19m.
I think if that's the plan we'd be better off loaning Gray and getting him some serious minutes elsewhere tbh. 40m signing or not, he's simply not gonna get enough gametime to develop if he's 4th choice in his best position, barely playing there and getting occasional mins at centre back and full back or in league cup games. He's gonna need consistent game-time in midfield if we ever want him to have any hope of living up to his potential.
I think we got a pretty good deal there to begin with at least - certainly by modern transfer fee standards. He was very good under Conte. Easily one of our best and most important players under him and it's no coincidence Conte's 2nd season started to fall apart once he got injured.
We looked worse on Saturday without him. Gained a bit more control when he came on. Everyone was looking for a reason or a scapegoat why we are/were struggling and a couple decided it was Bentancur and now it’s kind of just stuck and taken as the definite.
True, but if you don’t sell him and his performance level drops, he ends up chilling out for a few years not doing much. We’ve been down that road plenty of times.
True we need to get better at shifting players, but I don’t think letting a £20m-£30m player walk out the door for nothing makes sense either.
It's in vogue to shit on him now but the reality is we don't have better options for most situations. That is why Frank has played him so much.
Yes.
