Antonio 'Antoñito' Cordero - To Sign on 1st July from Malaga (Official)

[Optimistic Nut]

Do we not fancy looking at these types first before loaning out? Get a gauge of where they are or even if they might be useful for us even now? N'Zogbia hadn't even played senior football when we signed him, and was a regular in the squad within 3-4 months 

[Vaj]

1 hour ago, Optimistic Nut said:

Do we not fancy looking at these types first before loaning out? Get a gauge of where they are or even if they might be useful for us even now? N'Zogbia hadn't even played senior football when we signed him, and was a regular in the squad within 3-4 months 

I guess if teams of the quality of Ajax are interested and will play him (like Minteh at Feyenoord) then it makes a lot of sense to just do it. His best position is LW so he is going to be behind Gordon, Barnes and Joelinton in the pecking order here and that won't change throughout the season, best get him somewhere he will play. 

[ponsaelius]

I hate the signing and farming out of players for PSR purposes but unfortunately we basically have to play this game.

 

We know we're going to need to trade players, so we will probably want to be in a position where every summer we can either sell these Minteh type signings or instead move on an existing first team player and slot them in as a replacement. In an ideal world I don't doubt we'd have rather done the latter with Minteh given he was still on an upward trajectory.