08-12-2014, 18:01
(08-12-2014, 15:10)peiowl Wrote: Waste of time trying to talk common sense on here.
Westwood must stay. Read my lips.
I'll go talk with my 3 old ladies again.
They know how to read my lips.![]()
If we are prepared to let £4m of player leave for free then we will never move forward.
Southampton have been doing this for several years. They just sell any player that has a value for as much as possible then re-invest in free transfers & cheap young players then sell them at their peak value. They were in L1 a few years ago, now they are top six in PL.
Here are players they have sold in recent years:
Kevin Phillips - £1m
Peter Crouch - £7m
Theo Walcott - £5m
Nigel Quashie - £1.2m
Gareth Bale - £7m
Chris Baird - £3m
Kenwyne Jones - £6m
David McGoldrick - £1m
Andrew Surman - £1.2m
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain - £12m
Rickie Lambert - £4m
Luke Shaw - £27m
Adam Lallana - £25m
Dejan Lovren - £20m
Callum Chambers - £16m
They have sold players (only included £1m+ fees) for over £136m & improved the team each year.
That is what Wednesday have failed to do. We have hung on to players & let their contract run down. We should have learned this lesson when we got £3m for Brunt & only £500k for Whelan.
That is why Southampton are in the top six in the PL & Wednesday are halfway down the Championship.
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