I mean if we're going down this route Jose Bosingwa, Lloris Karius, Emannuel Eboue and Djimi Traore were "good enough" to start a Champions League final.started in the Champions league final, now signing for a club with champions league football..:.
Not good enough for a game in his actual position at chelsea
Good luck to him at Villa anyway (apart from when he's playing against us !)
He absolutely was good enough to be given a run of games, especially as it was at a time Chilwell was out injured, Cucurella was also injured and massively out of form and Colwell was struggling. Was preposterous that the cretinous poch played him at right midfield/wide right.
If Maatsen was not included, the fee would be a lot less. It is basically a way to help both clubs pass the profit and sustainability rules. This is where the rules need to be changed. The more they threaten clubs with sanctions, teams will find ways around it.
I don’t see this working out. He is valued at £1m & we have paid £19m for him. Chukwuemeka who we paid £20m for 2 seasons ago is struggling for consistent game time he needs to develop, and if we put him up for sale presently we might not even get any interest at £20m.
To be honest though, if we'd signed a promising youth international on a free transfer and got £18.5m for Maatsen, we'd probably think that was a good deal on both counts, and that's effectively where we are here.
I think the situation is different though. Loftus-Cheek and Hudson Odoi's careers had stalled, it was very hard to get any more than we did for them. Koulibaly and Mendy is Saudi crazy money, Ampadu is barely Premier League level and Pulisic had also fallen off.
I think the "playing in a Champions League Final" thing is being very overplayed in terms of where his value is ...
It wasn't just that he played in the Champions League final for them, he was a key player for them.
