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I reckon that would be true too but if we do end up with Parker, then that pretty much confirms Mascher is going, doesn't it?
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Yep. And that we've replaced him with an older, not as good version.
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but with £25m-30m change...........now I am not advocating selling Mascher he is my fav player, but if that money went back into buying a top class striker to go along with Torres and Ruud brought in in the short term as back up that might go some way to easing the pain.
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PS V Ha
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Oh, I agree. We won't see anywhere near that amount of change though. Maybe we'll see 30M for Mascherano, but we'll never get Parker for 6M. They'll demand 10 and we'll split the difference at around 12M.
Also isn't Mascherano actually on quite a low salary due to his unique situation? One would assume that Parker will get a pay raise, and given he is already making more than Mascherano's reported salary, a good amount of the change will be eaten up with the difference in wages.
If we HAVE to rid ourselves of Mascherano (in the summer presumably) and it's already quasi worked out, and we do the Pavyluchenko(sic) for Babel swap, get Parker, and lefty mcskilledmidfielder, that could work well.
Instead we'll probably buy a LB... Can't have too many left backs.