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Fall from flavour of the month? Haha! He’s been here over four years and apart from his first season he’s been so poor that he’s never been reliable enough to make the CB position his own, never once becoming a regular fixture.
Ruthless means getting rid of players who clearly aren’t good enough, nobody said give away for free but at the same time if we think somebody is going to pay us 40 million for him, well that’s ridiculous. We are going to have to cut our losses. Unfortunately though Levy spent a club record on him at the time and it’s not been money well spent. My point is there is zero point keeping him around in the hope he will turn into a top class CB. He’s not terrible, but he’s not good enough and there are no signs of improvement.
Selling our deadwood is one of the clubs biggest challenges but it’s one we need to make a success of if we want to move forward.
Understand the need to get rid but for me he shouldn't be the first one out the door as IMO he has untapped potential and has already shown how good he can be if he has someone next to him to help him through games. I think there's other players in the squad you need to be ruthless with but ideally we need to sign a CB or two who can lead, I'd rather see Dier out the door than Sanchez personally.