Incoming discussion and increased forum traffic: a rumor, Kessie won’t renew for less than 6mil.
Kessie rumor is scary. I hope he’s be a bit more flexible after 1.5 good seasons. Those bakayoko rumors just can’t be true. He is no better then Meite and more expensive.
I heard marseille balked at our offer for Kamara. He seems like a good deal tho.
At some point, we are going to need to either open our wallet and pay for our core players to stay, or let everyone leave and rebuild with youngsters we identified with our scouting network. Guys like Kessie can make more than even 6m a year in EPL, why exactly would he want to stay for significantly less? Players don't do their job for charity man. Maldini drew a hard line in the sand with Donna, but that's just the beginning of all of his headaches, i am afraid.
Kessie rumour is very unlikely to be true. I can see us losing Theo, even Bennacer before any issues with Kessie (contract, high bid or whatever). If we regress next season summer 2022 could be scary though.