Guehi replacment?

[Petertodd24]

I’m really struggling to understand how we don’t have a Guehi replacement lined up for this January window. We knew he was going in the summer so presumably have been shortlisting options A, B, C and D for several months. The finances in selling him in Jan made sense for a club of our statue and I supported the early sale but maybe I was being optimistic but I expected us to have his replacement (and by replacement I know that we wouldn’t get like-for-like but I mean a CB who is a solid squad player) lined up and ready to slide into the team - yet judging by the lack of transfer activity so far it feels like this has clearly not been the case, either by intention or not. Are the club just holding back funds for the new manager to spend, are we finding it harder to sign players with the manager declaring he’s leaving in the summer or have we simply fallen victim to poor transfer planning?

Apologies if I should have posted this in the transfer section. Just interested to hear everyone’s thoughts.

 

[maddog]

We do. It is and always has been Chadi Riad.

Whether he is an adequate replacement, your guess is as good as mine but he is the player that CPFC have bought.