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You’re way off here. Toby is much more important that Rose or Walker. He’s a talker and an organiser, as well as being a brilliant footballer.Losing Toby isn’t really a big deal, he’s not actually that key to our success. We’ve done perfectly well without and barring a few lapses in concentration Sanchez has on the whole being excellent. Jan is by far our star performing centre back. Losing Toby is no different to losing Walker and Rose to injury, we all panicked... what we going to do, we’re buggered. Yet Trippier and Davies both stepped up and saw us to our highest premier league finish. The only positions we have suffered or could suffer from are goalkeeper, central midfield/creativity and striker. Losing Lloris long term = no quality cover. We’ve struggled in Wanyama’s absence with Dier being hit and miss. Demblele’s fitness issues and Winks forever injured have left us really short in centre midfield. Whereas no Eriksen has had us in the shit and losing Kane would be a disaster as there’s zero cover.
As well as we’ve done without him, he’s one of the best around.
Having said that, if he’s really after a five year deal, and with his increasing history of repeating hamstring injuries, there would be alarm bells ringing for Levy on a purely value for money front.