Alves is immensly important to our offensive and its very very noticable when hes not playing, its like we are missing an extra attacker.
Still, if he really wants to be the second highest, then even i cant see how we can keep him.
Question is, who in the world with as much offensive quality could replace him? Zhirkov in the EC was extremly good but completly dissapeared after that. Lahm is good, but he doesnt have the dribbling skills or ballcontrol that Alves has. And there arent any English players that can measure up to him either, their to brutish.