Shaw plus cash for Rose could be a good deal


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The Daily Mirror and Daily Star are taking a guess that Manchester United will offer 22-year-old (23 next July) Luke Shaw plus cash for 27-year-old (28 next January) Danny Rose in the winter transfer window.

Well that is a long way away and the situation mid-season may well mean that a deal can not be done, it is just too disruptive to a season. Come the summer though and it may well be a different matter. I can certainly see the deal being done.

Mauricio Pochettino worked with Luke Shaw at Southampton, he turned him into an England international and like many a player taken out of the Pochettino system, he hasn't flourished elsewhere. Danny Rose ants a bigger salary and we have to increase our commercial income before we can start paying all our 'stars' the top level of our pay structure, we simply don't have the income of other clubs to be able to do it.

We have to be very smart in evolving the team and yes, sometimes that does mean selling a star to being in a replacement. As I reported during the summer, we didn't want to buy Ryan Sessegnon during the summer, we wanted to wait until next year when he has had another season under his belt. he is a long-term prospect and his capture, for me, if it happens would put question marks over Ben Davies.

He has progressed since Rose has been out but if Manchester United offered Luke Shaw and he was over all his injuries and we were sure he was fit, then a deal for Danny Rose might not be a bad idea.

Yes Rose is good, but so was Luke Shaw before him. If Pochettino can revive the player he was then Shaw is 5 years younger than Rose and at their best there isn't much between them. A fit and firing Luke Shaw wouldn't weaken our team so a younger player plus cash makes good sense.

What would Rose command, at least the £54 million (€59.06m - AUS$88.29m - US$70.44m) including add-ons that Kyle Walker cost and Luke Shaw with all his problems may be half that. If we can pick up a player plus £20 million (€21.87m - AUS$32.70m - US$26.09m) it has to e given serious consideration.

What we from the outside don't know is how his injury problems have affected him, but we'll do our homework on that by January.


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