Agreed, and frankly I don't trust SP to use the money received wisely; we don't want another Christian Benteke or Conor Wickham!

I'm confused reading this Thread, So, we haven't got enough money to pay for new players wages, but we have got enough money to give awb 100k per week ?

I'm all for keeping him, but the hard truth is that a football club needs to be run as financially viable entity nowadays.
The most Effective way to see a return is to sell academy players for a f*ckload of money. AWB has a lot of promise, and I'm sure will be immense later in his career, but he is not yet immense. ManU are gambling 53m (reportedly) on this. What if the unthinkable happens and he has a career ending injury next year? Reluctantly I say cash in.

Clubs like ours have to walk the fine line of ambition and progression by selling players on to generate income, in order to buy 'upgrades'. Then, the more success you have the More money you generate outside of player sales and the less you need to sell players. this only works, mind, if you have a decent scouting system......

Edited by CrazyBadger (12 Jun 2019 11.58am)

Stick to the £60M. No less! It's pretty obvious when everybody is pushing in every single way to force the selling isn't in our interest but theirs. All the press tactics are in place don't let them fool us. AWB is a wonderful player but also a nice and clever boy...COYP

At the very least 70m for Wan plus a forward player.
Lets stick out for the best deal, the big clubs do!
Forget the Everton couple, they haven't impressed much.
If Zaha goes, then it must be 80m plus a half decent player.
Would be happy to collect 150m for both, it must set us up for the future.
While we're at it, allow some of the players to go that just haven't made the grade. We can't wait forever for them to hit a rich vein of form!

i understand the sentiments of those that want to keep him...but for me RB isn't as critical a position for us as Winger / Forward...after all we still have Ward as cover.

People also need to realise that we're still very much a selling club and if we can make profits buying low / bringing through the academy and then selling for a profit then the club will be in good health.

If they offer £60m plus 20% sell on, we'll make more than enough.

i just hope we have his cover sorted BEFORE we sell though!