Rodrigo - Barcelona

What does £28m buy yours top?
I’d be wanting a striker for that who could play consistently as a 8th-12th league position player

Money dosnt always get you what you want though morata 31.5m
Bony 29m
Slimani 28m
Soldado 27m
Balotelli 27m
Moise kean 25m
Brewster 23m

We are not alone!

Strange one because there's a top player there, we've just not got much out of him, end of last season he was good though

Good player but doesn't fit our system at all. Well over spent on him and I'd take around 15 for him now.

To be fair, had he been fit whilst Bamford was injured we might just have seen him in a different light. As it happens he’s not really had the chance to play up top as a 9 that often.

Not sure about him really but at what we paid, someone must have seen something in him that we haven’t seen yet.

To be fair, had he been fit whilst Bamford was injured we might just have seen him in a different light. As it happens he’s not really had the chance to play up top as a 9 that often.
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he played 11 out of 12 league matches, 8 of those as a striker, really think he's had his chances, just not quite delivered however we've played him.

I'd sell Rodrigo for sure. Hope it's true. If he's not happy
and can't settle, even if we do lose 10 mill on the
transaction, let him go. Then we have funds for players.

I.m.o Rodrigo isn’t a player who’s played well for us. About 4 games at the end of last season he showed what he can do, but apart from that I think he’s been poor. Yesterday I thought the team looked weaker when he came on. He gets dispossessed so easily. I think we can find a better player, but it looks like we’ll lose money on him. When you compare what we paid for Rodrigo to what we paid for Raphinha, you would have expected the prices to have been reversed.

Personally I think he is underrated at times.

Last season got seven goals and was playing as a midfielder most of the time.

But I get what everyone is saying, much as I think there is a player there you have to show it on the pitch and he just hasn't done that for anything like you would expect for a player of his pedigree.

Think it was always going to be a hard sell, the price was a stone around his neck in many ways.

But right now, if we could gwt 16 million and use that to invest in a couple of midfielders then it would be a much better option.

Swift from reading is someone we are constantly being linked with and you would think with him being out of contract in the summer there is a deal to be made there.

16 million might not sound a lot in the current market, but if we take into account t contracts then I think there is something out there to be had

If he goes I hope we get money up front, he is apparently our top paid player at around 100k a week. He probably wouldn’t look out of place surrounded by better players, but apart from the odd flash of quality he isn’t a player who can dig in and drag a team up.

100k....lunacy.

But thought Raphinha our highest paid, and you have Kiko on 40/50 as well.