Goodbye Calum

Yeah all that money in the bank plus a season of PL revenue.....we get relegated....she sells and easily recoups the £15M her old man paid for us...Great business...Happy days for her as she swans down the Bahamas on her new Sunseeker.

 

I'm more concerned for the ones who are left. They will need a pay rise soon as all those leaving cards will need money put in.

 

This one upsets me more than any of the others. You make a commodity out of the academy, and you rip the soul out of the club.

 

I think it is both to be fair. In the past we have produced the occasional gem and they have stood out so much it was difficult to surround them with players of an equal status.

Now we can. But we are also producing top quality player at a much faster rate so you have to move one or two on or we lose the ability to blood new players each season. Lallana served his time with us before moving on. Disappointed with chambers for sure but we'll survive. I put it in the same class as Shaw. Best of his generation and always difficult to hold on to for long.

 

I'm in full agreement with this. This is our business plan. Bring youngsters through and sell them for vastly inflated prices. Now all we need to do is bring in a few quality cheap replacements and keep bringing the young'uns through. It will be a tough season, but I think Koeman will do okay. We've made huge profit on every player sold and the board have already said it's all going back into the team. I expect us to buy well when the fire sale is over.

 

Chambers is undoubtedly a very good prospect, but he is never worth £16m. IMO he shouldn't be worth half.

For goodness sake, he has only been in the first-team for one season, and I don't think he's as good as Clyne.

 

We won't be making much money from player sales, or general, if we aren't successful like last year.

 

The biggest insult is that they're saying we are getting Carl Jenkinson.

 

It's becoming a bit clearer why MoPo was ready to snatch Spud's hand off now. If the Board informed him the "summer plan" was to sell his team out from under him. Perhaps we can see him in a kinder light now. Looks like he did the only thing he could have done.

 

There is absolutely no way of maintaining PL status by relying on youngsters and cheap replacements!!!

Shaw and Chambers are barely out of nappies and they've f*cked off already

 

Nope we can't.

 

Not the end of the world as a backup to Clyne in all honesty.

 

Gonna just remind everyone now that Rickie was going to leave for West Ham half way through last season. Something was not right there. It was just after Cortese went. Think about it.

 

Rather have McCarthy.

 

Cortese tried selling to West Ham wasn't it?

 

Yeah, but having two backups for Clyne is okay. I'm not worried about him or Gnabry coming across to make the taste a little sweeter.

 

I am so so glad we are not a selling club anymore. Can you think how much worse it would be if we were?

 

Forget Jenkinson and get Gnabry on a perm.

 

Alex Crook said it was Gnabry and Jenkinson. Are other sources reporting this now?

 

Take both why not