to be honest he could really supplement our squad without selling cucurella. we can just have one at wing back and the other at left centre back and they're both able to cover for eachother
of course. which is why I suggested in my original post we may buy a young talent to take over from tagliafico once he's started to slow down a bit. it was hugo rune who suggested we already had said young talent in sturge. that may or may not be correct, only time will tell
who's replacing him has nothing to do with him. and nothing to do with the present either.
he'd be a stop gap for two or three seasons at the very least, so maybe that was a bad way of describing it, but I don't think there's anything inherently bad for him in that. sturge won't be 21 for...
we would not be getting this guy for 900k. besides, generally signings like veltman and welbeck are to supplement what we have already, whereas it seems as though we'll effectively be starting from scratch with the left back position this year, so they may stick to the blueprint a bit more. but...
great player with great experience but at 29 I'd be surprised if we didn't stick to the 'buy talent, develop and sell', which we can't really do with him. but maybe we'll buy a very young protege who's a couple of seasons away from the first team and use tagliafico as a stop-gap, and a very good...