I’m scratching my head at those advocating selling my player of the year last year, Anderson, to be replaced by a player none of us have seen (or in my case even heard of ), Per Schurrs.
There may be details I’m unaware of e.g Anderson wants to leave, Newcastle have made an unbelievable offer , but otherwise it makes no sense to me.
Anderson and Guehi have formed an excellent partnership giving us a solid foundation to play from the back and give our flair players a platform to flourish.
Neither of their contracts are expiring so there isn’t a pressure to sell and Anderson is the best long passer at the club and best defensive header of a ball.
Why throw this away for an unproven youngster who has never played in the Premier League and has to be considered a risk as well as having the effect of breaking up a successful partnership.
Some our saying Schurrs is a few years younger than Anderson; with that logic does that mean we should replace Eze with a player a few years younger?

I’m scratching my head at those advocating selling my player of the year last year, Anderson, to be replaced by a player none of us have seen (or in my case even heard of ), Per Schurrs.
There may be details I’m unaware of e.g Anderson wants to leave, Newcastle have made an unbelievable offer , but otherwise it makes no sense to me.
Anderson and Guehi have formed an excellent partnership giving us a solid foundation to play from the back and give our flair players a platform to flourish.
Neither of their contracts are expiring so there isn’t a pressure to sell and Anderson is the best long passer at the club and best defensive header of a ball.
Why throw this away for an unproven youngster who has never played in the Premier League and has to be considered a risk as well as having the effect of breaking up a successful partnership.
Some our saying Schurrs is a few years younger than Anderson; with that logic does that mean we should replace Eze with a player a few years younger?

The critical point here is one of age and future value of the player. Andersen is at his peak age and it is unlikely his value will increase. Eze (and for that matter Guehi) can still improve and be worth more to us if we hold on to them for another year or two.

Whether we fans like it or not, PL football is more a business than a sport these days and the club have to weigh up the pros and cons of keeping/selling a player.

Like you, I'd never heard of Schurrs before I saw the clickbait articles. However, if the recruitment team who picked out Guehi and Andersen think that Schurrs can do the job then I'm inclined to trust them.

Edited by doombear (15 Jul 2023 10.01am)

Been told that we have made a further bid of €18m with a further €7m add-ons 5 year contract agreed with option of a further year.

Deal should be accepted & completed by end of next week.

Zaha announcement next week also.

Could be a big week next week.

Unfortunately Anderson could be gone if so Schuurs will sign.

CHO or Gray is looking promising.

Also hearing we are back in for Boey & enquired about Dest as possible RB.

Striker will likely be loan to buy.