- Jul 7, 2012
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That's the thing, £25m for a 30 year old centre back who has given us four years service and generally been excellent, having only signed for £12m, is not that bad at all.
Toby is a great centre back, but he has also never been quite as great since his first big injury, and this is the second successive season where he missed a considerable chunk of games through injuries. If we get one more year out of him and he then leaves for £25m at the age of 30, with Sanchez having had 2 seasons of Premier league experience/ Pochettino coaching and Foyth even further along, it won't be a disaster at all. I'd actually rather lose him for £25m because of this supposed clause in the summer of 2019 than for £50m this coming summer, but I doubt Levy will see it that way.
I'm fine with that but it's WHO he can go to is the problem.