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Most likely scenario seems to me that we'll look to get another season out of him and get what we can in the summer after that. In the meantime, we'll look to see if we've got genuine starlet amongst the ranks of young wingers, so I would expect to see prominent loans for Mazilu and Osman...

To an Arsenal or PSG or whoever he would represent a risk. Unknown quantity with the injury recovery and not loads of resale value. Value to prospective purchaser. Approx £40m Value to us. Approx £60m = no sale

Yep. Don't see why "someone puts something in twitter" merits any further discussion

Losing Mitoma, on top of the bad news about Hinsh and just the steady drip drip of more injuries made a tough ask, twice as tough. We've been running at about 1 in 3 of our players injured for the middle third of the season and we can expect that's likely to continue for the last third as well...

And I sort of think that learning something like this is like learning swimming. Jumping in a pool is probably better than sitting there watching other people do it

I've never bought into this whole, we need to protect the player from the reaction of the savage Brighton crowd thing. I mean there might be one or two idiots on twitter or even at the ground stupid enough to have a pop at a teenager on debut. But RDZ can't protect Valentin from the big bad...

I understand the calls for Barco Lamptey will have likely have to play right back, Fati and Enciso are not playing full games. Adingra, good as he is, can only play on one wing at a time. I totally understand that in a perfect world Barco would get the full induction into RDZ philosophy. I...

Just tried. Apparently he's busy

I like the idea of Lamptey on the wing as well. But he's also needed at right back and I still don't think we can get two games a week for the rest of the season out of him either I also wonder if Estupinan as an out and out winger is one of the options. Igor filling in at left back?

Peupion could barely get a game for Cheltenham BBB might come to something, but he's years behind Sarmiento. And even if we accept your argument that the development of one player might have been stunted, (which I don't because he would have played through January and Feb and would almost...

I don't believe the club can be held culpable for failing to recruit. They knew we needed another winger and tried to get Osman in. Where I think we cocked up was letting Sarmiento go. Recruiting players is not always in your control, injuries are not in your control. But here we had a...

Your continued insistence that this isn't a blow comes across as quite "Lieutenant George". I mean, I suppose I admire your positivity. :)

Yeh, the rotation was in part a plan to reduce the number of injuries we'd get at the back of the season. It should have been a good plan. But luck deserted us

Some of those can play out wide yes. But of that list, it's really only Adingra who you would say is a specialist in that position and isn't needed to cover elsewhere and can vaguely do what Mitoma can do for us

Very harsh, given they tried. Though I got shouted down for suggesting that we should be recalling, or at least not renewing loans on the basis that these players are unlikely to get played. Every season we run out of players at the business end

Also don't underestimate the impact of facing probably the worst full back i've ever seen in the premier league. Tougher tests to come

Also, does FFP not apply to Arsenal? Another £70m?

My guess is that they want to assess the injury themselves. If they reach the same conclusion, which they almost certainly will, they will release him back to us.

He should switch over the the right sometimes. He'd win us a load of corners just getting to the byline