Loans with an option to buy are truly great deals. It’s a win win.

Loans with no option to buy and no realistic prospect represent the most short term thinking possible when running a football club.

It’s time to move on from short term fire fighting and have a proper long term strategy. We shouldn’t need to loan first team players if our recruitment was good enough. We are literally helping rival clubs with improving their players and the value of their players.

Did you notice the giant RLC sized hole in our midfield when we started out this year?

If it increases our chances of not getting relegated then I am all for it, but:

1 - with the squad we have now we should have been nowhere near relegation this year either way.

2 - whilst we give game after game to Batshuayi we are literally making our strikers even worse by denying them game time.

3 - if we are going to cut ties with benteke we need to get the most money possible, that won’t be the case if he is not playing.

As I said above while the spectre of relegation looms we need goals and points, end of story.

Once safety is assured we need to be planning for next year, not building teams and systems around the very members of our squad we can guarantee WONT be here next year.

Edited by Maine Eagle (06 Mar 2019 2.30am)

If Batshuayi does well do you think he would want to stay permanently or is he putting himself in the shop window for a bigger club

Michy will want to play with Euro qualifier coming up?

As I said, once we are safe, we should play benteke, IF we know we cannot sign Michy permanently.

If he won’t be our player next year I couldn’t care less what he wants.

If there is a chance we want to sign him, can afford him, and Chelsea will sell him, then by all means.