Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
I’m curious. Do you think we chose only to extend his contract by two years? Or maybe just maybe do you think that’s all we could negotiate with his agent. Who might have thought, well if we tie him down to this long a contract im not going to get my pay day when the big clubs in Europe come sniffing because I will have zero leverage in order to orchestrate a move.

Chelsea were able to sign youngsters down to these multi year contracts because there was no guarantee that any of these players would come good (and a lot of them haven’t) yet when Saliba signed a contract extension with us he’d already established himself as an invaluable player.

That plus they had no issue running an entirely unsustainable wage bill

I think we all recognise that there are things the club has done that is mistaken, but simply yelling “that’s what you should have done” at everything makes us sound like that character from Harry Enfield sketch
Sage points.

@Chippy I have been concerned about the Edu thing from the get go. The fact that we have not replaced him when for the kind of transformational Summer we need to complete Arteta's project we should be planning; trying to secure deals and having a;b;c;d &e alternatives now is very worrying. I don't want Jason Ayto as director of football. We do not know what his role as interim has been, but the evidence that we do have (no signings) hardly instils confidence, and the last thing we need is a yes man who is more interested in deferring to his superiors than doing what is in our best interests on the pitch. It's no coincidence that the most successful teams of the past few years have had really good club structures in place. I think Edu's departure has quite seriously affected ours.