Nice attempt to cover your mistake.

The conditions of the extra 5 million are as yet unknown.

Either that or, he will make a bad mistake in his first match, be put on the bench as punishment, lose his confidence and end up wishing he was back a good old, forgiving, SP

An odd list of transfers to compare this to.

I don't think anybody expected Ambrose, Murray, Gayle or Jedinak to go on and prove themselves as £100m players, particularly as three of them were sold into the Championship and Murray was already in his 30s.

Zaha is the only one who is really comparable but he has mitigation for failing at United as he was the single biggest victim of Fergie retiring.

Don't think there's any doubt that, barring horrific injury, AWB will go on to have the sort of career that most of that list could only have dreamed of.

Your broken record project fear hyperbole bores me.

What else should we sell a player for? Stock options? A packet of skips and a box of milk tray?

Yes we sold for money, and do you know why? Because we need money. Its simple isnt it, you dont need a degree in economics and capitalism to understand what went on here.

You dont become a selling club because you sell one player! Utter tripe, as usual. That is absolute nonsense. Parish and co have been s***e at selling players in fact with the exception of Bolasie which was a great bit of business.

Please google "selling club" to learn what the phrase actually means. We sell far too few players to qualify I am afraid.

If we are a selling club how do you explain us having the best attacker outside the top 4 on our books, head and shoulders above any attacking players at any team around us?

You cant, because your argument is the usual tripe.

As the limit of our ambition is purely to stay in the Premiership, then it comes as no surprise that we are selling one of our best players, even if the Moan U offer probably is too good to turn down.

Player power rules these days and whilst AWB has behaved impeccably, it is possible that had we prevented his move it might have affected his game for next season.

We are not alone - look at the talent that has left Southampton in recent years. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the money will be spent wisely, assuming it is spent. Fulham spent £100M and got relegated and the Seaweed pent £60M and none of those players featured toward the end of their abysmal season.

I despise the parasites that form the top six clubs, none more so than the show ponies that play at Old Trafford. Fortunately they have a manger that will be gone by Xmas, so little chance of AWB plating in the Champions League any time soon.