06-04-2018, 06:10 PM
I also think selling Silva right now is a bad move. He is a young player and needs his time to develop and adapt to new surroundings. It takes longer for some players than others, so his inability to adapt here in his first season shouldn't be that surprising. If we sell him now, we'd be selling low and it is very much possible that he could explode somewhere else and make us regret it. We did that with Kluivert back in the day, and that's precisely what happened. Furthermore, if we are replacing him with someone like Falcao, who might be a better player as of today but is much older and only getting worse every year, that would just compound the problem. It is not hard to imagine in a couple of years, we are staring at the aging Falcao, who can barely move any more and wishing we could have an Andre Silva, who is tearing it up in Ligue 1. If we need the money for someone amazing or perfect, then by all means sell Silva. But if we are just going after Falcao, then i would rather give Silva and Cutrone another year to see where their developments are going.