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What would be your strategy then?

He's a promising young player that we can develop and increase the value of. It's what we do. The reason the bid is for £6m is because he has a year left on his contract. From what I've seen he is very much in the Mane mould so he could be worth five or six times that fee in a couple of years.

Heavy one last night/this morning?

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/15428181.Pellegrino_eyeing_new_signings/?ref=mrb&lp=9

So, if a club meets our valuation of VVD and he does end up going, who could we realistically sign to replace him?

I'm a little bit concerned that Chelsea could go for Cedric if they do miss out on Danilo.

Would love it to be true but we aren't going to pay the £40-50m they want for him.

Well, he does look a bit like Sigurdsson, is a defender and plays for a team beginning with the letter 'A' (albeit not a Dutch one)... Although Palace have had a £16m bid for him rejected.

Would love to say that we would have those two, Stephens, Yoshida and Bednarek as our centre-back options next year (time for Gardos to go), but it isn't very likely.

If it is Sanchez then it's bye bye VVD.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was that Alaves defender.

And who will we replace him with that late on in the window?

I think that was Patrick Bamford but might be wrong.

It's in the Daily Mail too which may make it ever so slightly more believable. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4709030/Southampton-want-Manchester-City-s-Patrick-Roberts-loan.html

The Mirror say Leicester could get Iheanacho for £15m http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-citys-pep-guardiola-starts-10824250

Patrick Roberts... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4047637/southampton-man-city-patrick-roberts-loan/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:TheSunFootball:TwImageandlink:Statement:Sport

The Times say that Ryan Bertrand has been "priced aggressively" by us, so £25m doesn't seem likely. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/city-to-fight-chelsea-for-reals-21m-danilo-wd72rdvpp

Let's hope Virgil doesn't get any ideas...

Well, that one was short-lived... http://torinofc.it/news/12/07/2017/baselli-rinnovo-sino-al-2022_14835

Certainly promising that we're looking at a box-to-box midfielder.

Which ones?

On a permanent deal it certainly makes more sense than the previous Loftus-Cheek link.