I think if we look at CM again, lets say we sold
McCarthy
Besic
Vlasic
Schneiderlin
Received say £45-£50mil for the lot and saved a packet in wages.
Kept Davies, Baningime Gana and Sigurdsson and signed 2 more centre mids u23 years old with the money.
We would expect those 2 u23s to be first 11 players before long taking the same chances as Digne when he replaced Baines...we would then have Gana and Sigurdsson, two 30 year olds next season as rotation options.
If we kept them for the season they would be a month or two off 31 years of age with resale values of a lot less than we could take for them now.
Instead of this, if we actually sold them for say £25mil each (as an example) and the others we would have around £100mil to rebuild the CM along with whatever cash Moshiri would be willing to put towards it.
Id have alot of faith in brands as on top of the transfer pot there would be a massive pot of wages.