I can’t give you a good footballing reason to get rid of Fabregas because I can’t see one, however as we all know too well, clubs regularly make business decisions which don’t make sense if you look at it for purely football reasons. If he goes, I think that’s a bad decision from the club.

As for CHO and these Bayern rumours, I think it’s naïve if he or anyone thinks he’d go and play regularly for a Bayern team that still consistently plays proper old timers like Ribéry and Robben over other younger options. I think he’s being handled exactly right so far and getting rid of two experienced internationals in order to make sure a kid who’s just turned 18 plays every single match for a club with CL aspirations, would be lunacy. No top club would ever do such a thing unless the kid in question was Messi and Hudson-Odoi is not Messi.