Which is why recruitment is key to develop more assets. We have seen far too many players leave for nothing. I suspect we will make one big sale every summer for the foreseeable.
100% spot on. Would hang my hat on DCL, possibly JP being gone next summer; irrespective of our place in the league.
Gordon
could fetch £35m based on NUFC rumours but they're paying for potential, not a kid with utterly awful end product and an inability to take a corner. Other than him, who have we developed? Tom Davies; who 12-18 months go
might have been on Saints/Palace radar for a few quid.
Recruitment has been a joke. We drop £80m on Siggy & Keane, Leics drop half of that on Maddison & Forfana. We pump for £50m for Gbamin, Allan & Fabian 'cant play 3 games in a row ever' Delph, they get Ndidi and Tielmans for maybe half. Brentford get Eriksen on a free, we move for Dele. Wolves got an "over the hill" Moutinho for £5m, still 100x better than £25m Gomes. Iwobi much improved under Lamps, but no one is paying £35m for him whilst WHam find Soucek for £10/15m. Etc etc etc