Rahman Returns On Season Long Loan

By Hob Nob Anyone?

Baba Rahman has returned to the club after his loan spell with Reading last season. The Chelsea left-back re-joins on a loan that will run until the end of the current season. Rahman played 29 times for the Royals last season and will now play for Reading more than any other club in the 28-year-old's career. Rahman, a Ghana international, signed for Chelsea from Augsbury in 2015 for a massive 21.7 million pounds but has only made 23 appearances for Chelsea and spent most of this time out on loan while on Chelsea's books.

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RJ Royal_jimmy 30 Aug 2022 · 11:52pm

Happy to have Baba back. I think this side will suit his game better
HO Hound 31 Aug 2022 · 8:04am

Happy with Baba. And clearly wants to play for us which is good With Moore - maybe we just get him fit and into the squad. Dann is obvs good only for the knackers yard and he is an experience champ CB who may actually suit the new ‘style’
SR Snowflake Royal 31 Aug 2022 · 8:12am

Serious question, who would you genuinely drop out of the squad for six months for Moore? Holmes? No chance. Sarr? No chance. Hutchinson? No. McIntyre? No. Abrefa? No thanks Clarke? Maybe? Dann? He'll barely ever be fit to make it in anyway We'd need at least 1 injury for Moore to get on the bench. His career is done here.
BR Brogue 31 Aug 2022 · 10:38am

Re the Moore pay off stuff. He’s on about and we can’t be 100% sure, but somewhere between 30 and 35k pw. I think we can all roughly agree on that. 20k pw is 1 mill a year. So to buy him out of his 30k pw contract would be somewhere in the region of 1.5 mill, give or take. Say we said to him look we will pay you half your salary - circa 750k and you can get 15k per week at a new club, you will be financially the same for the remainder of the season. If I were Moore, and that were put to me I would think ok I’ll take that. Agent please go find me a club willing to pay me 15k pw. Which I think is probably doable. We have saved… More →
YO YorkshireRoyal99 31 Aug 2022 · 11:16am

Agree completely about his career here being done, but he's still a capable defender at this level so if we had to keep him for another season, he would be a good option to have on the bench at least. Wouldn't say he gets into our starting XI or anything but, out of our 6 first team CB's, it would be Holmes, Hutchinson, Sarr, McIntyre, Moore, Dann for me, which is competent enough for the season. I think Clarke has done well, Abrefa as well, but they could use some proper game time with the U23's. Would rather them be playing minutes for our U23's and Moore just being in our matchday squad getting none/little minutes rather than… More →
HO Hound 31 Aug 2022 · 12:03pm

Obvs I’d much rather get rid but strongly suspect that’ll be very difficult We’ll have injuries no doubts. TMc, Dann, Hutch - all injury prone Better just to get Moore motivated and at least may provide some use rather than just rotting away in the background
TM tidus_mi2 31 Aug 2022 · 12:10pm

Think Baba should end up being a great signing for our current position, I think the likes of NGW, TMac and Hoilett have done well to cover the absence in that position but teams have pinpointed it as a weakness and we've found ourselves vulnerable defending attacks down that side. Hopefully having a senior LB will leave the team more balanced.
YO YorkshireRoyal99 31 Aug 2022 · 12:11pm

Got to see what happens come January, shipping out on loan with someone paying half of his wages for the remainder of the season would help us financially and maybe allow us to bring in a couple of new faces, but obviously they'd have to be free agents, which would be tough for us to bring in as most will have been snapped up by that time, but there may be someone who can get their contract terminated at their current club or just weren't signed up before.

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