Sabre wrote:This thread has 3 pages, but I'd like to know, how much credibility do you give to this rumours of offloading Crouch or Sissoko in winter? are you certain they're going to go?
For 10M, it's going to be difficult to bring a better striker than Crouch. For 20 though, mmmm, you could start to bring players like Villa, who are blatantly unsettled in Valencia.
But, IMHO important striker movements must be done in summer, not in the winter market which by definition is more expensive.
Crouch has only 18 months on his contract, if we leave it till the summer we will be lucky to get £5million for him. If Rafa wants to get shut we will have to do it at Christmas. We have a similar problem with Riise, unless we give him a new contract.
So unless Rafa has a change of heart about Crouch, I am pretty sure he will have to go.
Sissoko may be going to help pay for Mascherano?