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dansubrosa said:
How on earth did we let ourselves into this situation? Really awful planning. We only signed 1 player last summer and it cost us 100m. He’s now another problem. What if we spent that 100m on securing contracts and increasing squad depth, such as wing backs? 
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Crazy that random supporters can come up with far more sensible plans than the one who's paid millions to run this football club.

Letting Rudiger go is scandalous. We can add it to the list of other scandalous decisions under Marinas reign as director.

We can forget every ambition for next season if he does go. Backline that remains will look scandalous and in need of three top class defenders which will never happen.

 
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dansubrosa said:
We had long enough to tie him down and we didn’t. We only have ourselves to blame.

How on earth did we let ourselves into this situation? Really awful planning. We only signed 1 player last summer and it cost us 100m. He’s now another problem. What if we spent that 100m on securing contracts and increasing squad depth, such as wing backs? 
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Imagine if we offered new contract to Rudi n Chris 2 years ago. There will be protest and outrage everywhere because many2 fans thought our cb were championship level including these 2. 

 
Sindre said:
Crazy that random supporters can come up with far more sensible plans than the one who's paid millions to run this football club.

Letting Rudiger go is scandalous. We can add it to the list of other scandalous decisions under Marinas reign as director.

We can forget every ambition for next season if he does go. Backline that remains will look scandalous and in need of three top class defenders which will never happen.
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It isn’t though; gets protected in a back 5, once you switch to a back 4 he looks average. He has been leaving on a freebie since Jan, & somehow 4mths later he hasn’t signed a contract with none of those linked clubs. It’s either a case of him & his agent overvaluing his qualities, or maybe those linked clubs reckon his flaws in a back 4 make his demands ridiculous. 

Not totally fussed if he leaves, if it means getting a defender who is comfortable in a back 4. I don’t think we are getting close to the top 2 unless we switch to a mid 3, & have some presence in the middle of the park. Hypothetically should we cede to his demands & Tuchel leaves in the next couple of years, the next manager in might want to play a back 4. He then becomes an overpaid CB who we can’t shift because of his age & his wages.
 

 
Frankie8Lampard said:
Blame the government. If they didn't tie our hands, we would have offered him a contract by now.
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It's not really about the government. We could have signed Kounde, we didn't. We could have signed Van Dijk many years ago when we had Conte, but no. We had the chance to build a solid backline and didn't bother. Instead we wasted money on average players and look where that got us. Infuriating how poor this board has been. 

 
Sindre said:
Crazy that random supporters can come up with far more sensible plans than the one who's paid millions to run this football club.

Letting Rudiger go is scandalous. We can add it to the list of other scandalous decisions under Marinas reign as director.

We can forget every ambition for next season if he does go. Backline that remains will look scandalous and in need of three top class defenders which will never happen.
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I'll be honest, I've never been particularly sold on Rudiger. Before Tuchel and Silva came in, he was far too rash and his positioning was poor.

He still suffers from these problems, but not nearly as much. I still think the pairing with Silva makes him look far better than he is.

But we didn't sign any decent defenders for years. We decided on Rudiger and Luiz to be our backline, which is mad. 

 
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Sindre said:
Crazy that random supporters can come up with far more sensible plans than the one who's paid millions to run this football club.

Letting Rudiger go is scandalous. We can add it to the list of other scandalous decisions under Marinas reign as director.

We can forget every ambition for next season if he does go. Backline that remains will look scandalous and in need of three top class defenders which will never happen.
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Although he won't be as good straight away especially on the leadership side of things we luckily have a ready made replacement from within in Levi Colwill.

 
Strong rumours from reliable sources saying Rudiger is set to leave Chelsea.

Sad news if true, we got a taste on Wednesday of life without Rudiger.

Levi Colwill can replace Christensen but we will need a proper replacement for Toni.

 
I suppose both rudi and Andreas should not be the starting lineup for any of our remaining matches, As their minds are elsewhere. 

 
Like with AC if he decides to go then good luck to him. Team needs a rebuild anyway as Jorgi is off either this summer or the next and the Kante Era is coming to an end, at least as a starter for the majority of games.

We have young players we HAVE to integrate, like Gallagher, Colwill and Broja. Also ones like Gilmour than need to be decided up and ones we could buy back like Livramento.

 
Not surprised to be honest. Sounds like he's bound for Real Madrid.


 
ducavis said:
According to Matt Law; we matched his last demands by offering over £200k/w (ridiculous IMO), but his agent wanted a £10m signing  on fees, plus agent fees of around £10m, and a salary exceeding £200k/w?

So should the club have met these ridiculous demands? I say good riddance.
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To a large extent I agree with this sentiment. We have though now got the problem of finding two CB’s, who won’t come cheap unless we skimp. We can’t sign players ourselves who have come available on a Bosman whilst sanctioned plus these sanctions will have a big say on our transfer budget and being able to adhere to FFP. This has been an almighty cock up at boardroom level and may just influence our decisions on contract renewals and retentions in future.

 
charierre said:
To a large extent I agree with this sentiment. We have though now got the problem of finding two CB’s, who won’t come cheap unless we skimp. We can’t sign players ourselves who have come available on a Bosman whilst sanctioned plus these sanctions will have a big say on our transfer budget and being able to adhere to FFP. This has been an almighty cock up at boardroom level and may just influence our decisions on contract renewals and retentions in future.
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We have Colwill. He is free. 

 
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