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Marc Guehi return?

Ruthless from City, no messing about. They needed a player and got him. We've had our best CB injured for the entire season and haven't even bothered trying to bring a replacement in. Our clowns got tunnel vision and prioritised two sh*t wingers.

 
Yey, another player to add to the injury list. City laughing to the bank.
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Not missed a game this season and would be cheap. Adds experience and wouldn’t be expected to play every game, especially when Colwill is back.

 
I mean if we're going to randomly blame clearlake for this, we may also have to look at why we let a player like this leave us in the first place.
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Perhaps due to the competition. Thiago Silva and Rudiger were the resident CBs then. Compared to Tosin and Baddysh!te now. Hmm

 
Rumoured to be getting £300k a week at City, sorry but that's absolutely mental.
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If that's true, I think only Haaland would be above that at City ... Guehi's agent has played a blinder there LOL

 
He’s not the best cb in the world but for 20m we are insane not to be bringing him back, solid, regular starter for England, brings leadership knows the club well, whilst we probably are going to spunk 50m on some unknown 18 year old centre back.. madness
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I dont think him coming back has been on the table for the past 2 years at least.

Maybe there was a chance once upon a time but would have cost us 60+

 
I dont think him coming back has been on the table for the past 2 years at least.

Maybe there was a chance once upon a time but would have cost us 60+
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I think once the academy players decide to leave, then that's it ... they've mentally checked out of the club full stop ... in fact I'm struggling to think of any that we've re-signed ?

Players we've paid fees for there are a few ... e.g. Matic, Luiz and Lukaku ... (and Joao Felix LOL) ... but they weren't academy players ...

 
He’s not the best cb in the world but for 20m we are insane not to be bringing him back, solid, regular starter for England, brings leadership knows the club well, whilst we probably are going to spunk 50m on some unknown 18 year old centre back.. madness
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The truth is what could possibly interest him in coming to a club like this that would offer him no more than he'd get at Palace. Not sure we'd have been able or prepared to have matched his Palace wage anyway, let alone what City will be paying him.

 
I mean if we're going to randomly blame clearlake for this, we may also have to look at why we let a player like this leave us in the first place.
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Coming into the 2020s, the Club had to choose between Chalobah/Colwill/Guehi/Tomori at CB, Mount/Gallagher/Hall for CM and most notoriously, Lamptey/James/Livramento at RB.

It so happened that Cobham spawned 3 successive golden generations. Guehi was undoubtedly the most controversial since he was extremely highly-rated internally, but he simply didn't want to play backup.

Rumoured to be getting £300k a week at City, sorry but that's absolutely mental.
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Wait until you here what Chelsea are paying Raheem Sterling

 
Coming into the 2020s, the Club had to choose between Chalobah/Colwill/Guehi/Tomori at CB, Mount/Gallagher/Hall for CM and most notoriously, Lamptey/James/Livramento at RB.

It so happened that Cobham spawned 3 successive golden generations. Guehi was undoubtedly the most controversial since he was extremely highly-rated internally, but he simply didn't want to play backup.

Wait until you here what Chelsea are paying Raheem Sterling
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To complicate things, his loan spells at Southampton were seriously underwhelming.

 
To complicate things, his loan spells at Southampton were seriously underwhelming.
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Honestly don't think he's anything special ... I'd say he is a similar level to Tomori or Chalobah.

Guehi has very average defensive stats for someone who is going to be getting £300K a week (which in itself is an insane salary for a centre back). It highlights for me the lack of decent alternatives in the market place (in any league). He has PL experience and leadership as qualities for sure, but he's not exactly John Terry or Marcel Desailly ...

Not our problem anyway !

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To complicate things, his loan spells at Southampton were seriously underwhelming.
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Swansea? He was fantastic actually, but as part of a really good defensive unit. His performances on loan were what condemned the club to sell Tomori. Guehi was always highly rated internally but the main concerns were his height (he is "only" 6ft) and pace, which stood out like a sore thumb in comparison to the visibly more athletic Chalobah and Tomori, both of whom could also play multiple positions in defence. Colwill had also just broken through, and for obvious reasons is the most highly-rated defender to come out of Cobham since Reece James.

There was no way that Guehi could be anything other than 4th choice rotation behind Christensen, Rudiger and Silva although he would have got a lot of minutes thanks to Tuchel's preferred back 3.

The other issue was the FFP pressure of the Lukaku purchase (FFS) so when Palace came offering 18m pure profit + a buyback clause, it seemed to be a mutually beneficial offer.

 
Swansea? He was fantastic actually, but as part of a really good defensive unit. His performances on loan were what condemned the club to sell Tomori. Guehi was always highly rated internally but the main concerns were his height (he is "only" 6ft) and pace, which stood out like a sore thumb in comparison to the visibly more athletic Chalobah and Tomori, both of whom could also play multiple positions in defence. Colwill had also just broken through, and for obvious reasons is the most highly-rated defender to come out of Cobham since Reece James.

There was no way that Guehi could be anything other than 4th choice rotation behind Christensen, Rudiger and Silva although he would have got a lot of minutes thanks to Tuchel's preferred back 3.

The other issue was the FFP pressure of the Lukaku purchase (FFS) so when Palace came offering 18m pure profit + a buyback clause, it seemed to be a mutually beneficial offer.
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Bah. Both start with S, they're near water.

 
This biggest blocker to Guehi's return isn't really the fee, the wages, the lack of genuine trophy ambition. The reason that he didn't entertain coming to Chelsea is that he didn't want to come here, end of.

 
Honestly don't think he's anything special ... I'd say he is a similar level to Tomori or Chalobah.

Guehi has very average defensive stats for someone who is going to be getting £300K a week (which in itself is an insane salary for a centre back). It highlights for me the lack of decent alternatives in the market place (in any league). He has PL experience and leadership as qualities for sure, but he's not exactly John Terry or Marcel Desailly ...

Not our problem anyway !

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I watched city vs united and city definitely need Guehi more than we do. They had khusanov who is probably more of a RB and an academy kid as their cb.

 
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