Everything we hear on the Conor Gallagher front for months has been preparing us for the fact that he’s going to be leaving Chelsea.
No contracts have been put on the table, and the £40m or so raised by his sale has already been accounted for in our previous wave of spending. Chelsea fans hoping that things could turn around at the last minute are starting to realise that’s not the direction things are heading.
HITC backs that story up by saying that even Gallagher is “starting to accept” that he’s going to have to leave Chelsea. The Blues apparently value him at £50m, but it feels unlikely they will get it, given everyone knows they’re desperate to sell.
Mauricio Pochettino has made it clear how much he rates him, but it seems that the desperate financial situation is overriding the manager’s wishes:
“I think he is a player with a great commitment to the team,” the coach said earlier this year.
“He is always trying to compensate in every situation, in offensive and defensive situations. It’s priceless to have a player like him.”
A sorry state of affairs
Much like with Mason Mount’s situation a year ago, it just seems incredible that things have reached this stage. A popular home grown player who can bring so much to the first team has had to “accept” that he’s going to be sold by the club he grew up with, and the club he wants to play for.
All of this is in order to financially accommodate new arrivals who don’t show any of the same desire on the pitch that he does. The whole thing is completely backwards, and the departure of Gallagher is another obvious step in the wrong direction from sporting directors who are bungling their handling of this squad and its future in real time
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