mdgoonah41 wrote:
we should offer to sell them ESR for £20m if they sell us upamecano now for £50m and we agree to loan him back for 1 year. his release clause drops next summer (still above £50m), but they'd get to keep him for this season, and then get £50m for him when he has 1 year left on his deal, and they get ESR for less than we value him.
would suck to not have him this season, but maybe we can patch the defense together this season. we're still not winning the league this season. no need to burn a bridge at a club that has tons of good young talent. id rather secure upamecano and wait a year, same with saliba, than settle for rugani.
That's a reasonable route, but I worry we'll also need next year for Saliba/Upamecano to get up to speed.
What about:
Sell ESR this year to them, loan Upamecano with a first rights clause for next year at his release clause (which is quite high)?