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If the time ever came where he'd be good enough for us to buy back we'd basically just be signing another Mathieu.

Hard to imagine a player going from getting close to no minutes at all in his first season, to competing for the starting position. Would rather we try out Roberto or make a promotion first.

You may think the buyout clause dropping hurt us but you're really fooling yourself if you think Bartra would have gone for more than 10m, which is a negligible difference from what we actually got for him. These are players who play so little that their buyout clauses drop. Why would any club...

Those clauses are the best case scenario for players who aren't actually getting to play. If you sit down to think about it losing a player who already plays so little doesn't hurt us very much at all. Obviously, Thiago's departure hurts a lot more than Bartra's, but if the club gave a single...

He didn't. He failed horribly and the medical team said he wasn't fit for signing. Zubi overrode them.

Fiorentina is interested in taking Tello off our hands and Betis seems somewhat willing to do the same with Montoya for a better price. Song should probably just be released tbh. Alen should be headed to Valencia (I'll believe the reports of that falling through when it actually happens), and...

Casillas, Spain's most legendary goalkeeper, ever. Not really a fair comparison, the reason why he's still there despite his performances is pretty obvious.

Or he can find himself on the bench and rot there until it's time to come back because he's not immediately good enough to bench any of the current players and isn't worth the effort of developing when he won't be there longer than one season.

Lucho wanted him but he's also the one who has benched him long term over what seems to have been an injury playing another game.

He should get some minutes with the first team during preseason, since Bartra/Verm are leaving and Mathieu is too injured to go to the Euros while Masche will have the Copa America to deal with.

I just can't help but feel that if he were 27 and had a trophy or two under his name, playing exactly how he does now, your opinion on him would be different.

He was super close to not even getting renewed last season when the club thought they could replace him. Leaving when he has the chance is the smartest thing he could have done, as much as it hurts to say. He's also unlikely to get another major contract here, but other clubs will bend over...

Who wants to bet that even with Dani gone Lucho will still leave this guy permanently on the bench? Lol

If Lucho wants him to get minutes he will get minutes. The exact same thing is said all the time about Rafinha and he is never starved for minutes.

What does this even mean...?

He's not the type of winger we use or need. Rafinha and Denis and even Munir are much better options for our system. No point shoehorning into a position he won't even be able to help us in. Granted, that's everywhere, but that's part of why I think he should leave.

Imagine just how low he must think of the club that he actually even asks this. Why not give him one of Messi's golden balls while we're at it.

Munir treatment incoming? Would love to see him getting first team minutes but he'd really be better served spending more time with the B team than first team, which Munir never got. Unless he outplays Iniesta and Messi combined and scores 9 goals per game with seven assists or something.

With that logic you could say any player has gone 3-4 months between seasons "Without playing" if there isn't a summer tournament for their country that year, if they even play for their country. Arda waited from late August/September to January to play. Any months added onto that aren't any...

Adriano, Vermaelen, and Bartra should all leave regardless. Not one of those players is useful to the squad. Vidal doesn't look to be leaving, and Alves leaving is his own choice. The only real issue here is Mascherano and we always knew he'd be leaving one day anyways, it just puts us in a bad...