There is still a lot of football to play in 2023/24, but if teams aren’t looking ahead to the summer transfer window and next season they have already fallen behind the competition.
In a world where Premier League Profit & Sustainability rules are increasingly king, bringing money in by offloading players in the market is as important as bringing them in to strengthen on the pitch.
No club, even the wealthiest, can afford a bloated squad.
90min picks one player from each of the established ‘big six’ – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur – to sell.
Aaron Ramsdale going to waste on Arsenal’s bench is helping no one, and with the £27m permanent option in David Raya’s loan from Brentford set to be triggered that situation isn’t changing.
The 25-year-old was named in the PFA’s Premier League Team of the Year for 2022/23 but has seen his chance of being England number one at Euro 2024, which was a genuine possibility 12 months ago, go up in smoke because his club status. Arsenal owe it to him to listen to offers and could probably command a fee in excess of the £30m deal they agreed with Sheffield United in 2021.
Chelsea will never recoup anything like their investment in flop midfielders Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez (£223m for the pair) so may as well stick it out given that both are still in the early stages of their respective careers and could yet come good over time.
Marc Cucurella should never have been signed in the first place and getting more of their money back on him stands to be easier than if Mykhailo Mudryk or Wesley Fofana, both even more expensive massive flops, were to be sold in the near future. The Spaniard is a proven upper mid-table defender and should a team with aspirations of finishing in the top half – say Crystal Palace, West Ham, Brentford, or even a return to Brighton – offer anything around £30m, Chelsea should take it.
Cody Gakpo has only been at Liverpool for just over a year, but the Dutchman doesn’t have a defined role and, whichever way you look at it is not a starter in any of the positions he can play. In his primary position up front, the competition from Darwin Nunez, who Liverpool paid more than twice as…
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