ajnotkeith
Senior Member
Agree with what you wrote but I don't think he will leave or that the club will try to get him to leave as long as he has a place in the squad.He is decent but not essential.
If we can sell him and get good money I would not be against it.
I don't think he is CAM or CDM. He is more box-to-box.
Sell Gavi and get someone good to rest Pedri.
Bernal and Casado are really decent, De Jomg, Olmo, Fermin, Pedri, and player with right profile would be really profile wise compatible.
Him having a sub role is not a problem, but the issue is that he might be too valuable financially to leave him in that kind of position.
Another thing to add is he's approaching the age where he should be starting regularly and learning his position, not being put on the bench here. I don't think he will ever be good enough to be a starter for us in the long term given Barcelona standards but he could be a resident squad player. The question is, business wise, is that better for us rather than selling him? I don't think so.
Probably, we could replace him with someone cheaper and have a lot of spare money. Sadly this isn't FM, unless he is told he has no role in the team he won't leave.