People need to start looking beyond the next 12 months when considering signings. Especially teenagers! What he does or doesn’t do next season isn’t really the point when buying an 18 year old. If the club feel he is the right player, they should move for him. And his potential is of course far higher than Scott and Fred, I doubt they will stop us signing him. A more likely reason would be because we fancied Garner instead.
I don’t see it a problem if we signed him and he wasn’t an immediate regular.
I do think people are a bit obsessed with his age and aligning that to Renato Sanches especially as a point of reference, especially as he was so poor a Swansea.
Different position. He has already played three times as many games for his club as Sanches did before moving to Munich. Sanches was also moving to a club with world class played already in his position, Camavinga wouldnt be.
He has played as many games for Rennes a year younger than Greenwood has for us, he has played more games than Greenwood for his country than Greenwood a year younger and has already played a few games in Europe.
Most importantly, like you say, he is a long term signing anyway...but this isnt a long term signing without experience like an Amad for example. This is a very yougn player, which of course can represent a risk.....not for me though, he can force his way into the side within little time for me as he is better already than what we have, is probably the best teenage midfielder in Europe if not the best teenager full stop. It is like someone saying we shouldnt sign Greenwood if we didnt have him as he is so young......when the option would be Dan James.
From what I have read about him, he seems to have a really strong character. I have no doubt he would be a huge success here if we were to sign him. For me £50m for Camavinga apart from him being foreign so not having played in our league is like some of thes huge sigings we have made on great young British players Keane, Rooney, Ferdinand, Robson....its a non brainer. Apart from Rooney he is younger than they were, but he has played pretty much as many games as most of them had I would have thought and in todays market £50m I think is actually a good price as crazy as that is to write