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I find your argument inconsistent. I said Chadli was an excellent sub, not a starter. Kane never really overtook him, because Kane didn't compete with Chadli for a position. Chadli's been used as a wide forward the whole time, while Kane's been a striker the whole time. Son hasn't overtaken Chadli generally, since they usually play different positions (Son either as the right-sided forward or striker, Chadli usually as the left-sided forward). Alli has arguably overtaken Chadli, but that hasn't really come from Chadli playing worse than last year. He's not really been worse. Alli has just exploded on the scene.Chadli has been at Tottenham as long as Eriksen and Lamela, both of whom are vital cogs to the Pochettino system. Chadli a key player last season, seems to have regressed (maybe after his father's passing) and not a vital cog, he's been over taken by non-CL experienced players Alli, Kane even Son. You can quote those stats but they are somewhat skewed in that Chadli is not a starter or plays every game. He is useful squad player, but if the right deal came along I would not be sad to see him go, also £25m?
Yes, there are sub effects in stats, but the point I have made is that if you are looking for someone to be a sub, not a starter, then you're not going to find many players who can do what Chadli does and still be happy as a sub. And yes, 25 million. If we sell Paulinho for 9 million, do you really think Chadli's only worth 6 million more than that?
About as many as will be trying to sign Christian Eriksen. Probably none.
No one will value Chadli at 25 mil - you've lost the plot on this one
He's a 12-14 mil player for a mid-table PL club where he can start - Sigurdsson mk2 - nothing more
There are plenty of young players out there who will be as good and happy to appear off the bench to do a job, just because they don't have 'champions league' quality doesn't make them any less better.
£25m of Chadli is the Chinese price, everyone else is £15m which is bite your hand off money. We signed him for less than £6m so over and above that Levy will be laughing.
That's lacist
Really, you think that's all we would sell him for? Thank fuck you're just posting on a forum. Then again, you also though Falcao would have been a good signing.
Fuck off me no lacist, look at my avatar!!!
£15m of a squad player is about the going rate, look at how much Townsend went for, he had added English tax to his value.
He could have been - we'll never know
You're insane if you think any club in Europe would pay 25m for Nacer Chadli
Which young players are out there who would be as good? Genuinely, tell me who. I do happen to have a list of young players across Europe who could replace him, and there are currently 2 who have a higher per 90 output than him. Others will improve and can probably go beyond that, but people love to overstate "good" based on the eye test. The eye test bought us Paulinho. The numbers bought Son, and got Dier moved to DM.
Haha, clutching at straws with a "could have been", aren't you? He's been crap for 3 years, and was not as good as the hype before that.
I'm not.
I'm ribbing you over your claims about Falcao, when everyone and their brother was warning how bad he was going to be at United. And he was.
But, as I was saying about Chadli, he's a Champion's League-quality player, and is a great sub option for us. He would not be easy to replace, and selling him for 15 million would be considerably undervaluing him.
Watch out lads I've got Championship Manager fired up and his value is £25m, the stats tell me that Chadli is equal to Kane and Alli for chances created, goals scored, BMI, Tony n Guy hair styling, social media footprint etc, etc, etc...
I don't need to tell you any names as I don't sit with a spreadsheet of all the young players plying their trade across Europe. However I am sure Mitchell is sat in his blackbox looking at the same data.
Just because he was bad at that shambles of a team - doesn't mean he would have been equally bad for us - ludicrous logic.
15m for Chadli would be a steal - he's a mid-table level player - no shame in that
He really isn't. Ryan Bertrand, Djimi Traore and David May all Champions League quality players? They've got winners medals FFS
£15m is still probably an over inflation of Chadli's value. He is a squad player and not a starter.
He's undoubtedly got a lot more data than I do, since I just looked at whoscored.
But my point stands. If you don't actually know any players who are better, why claim there are many? You don't actually know that to be the case at all.