Ha, I'm yet to be convinced that we are any further past the stage of Everton just throwing a bid in. I don't believe he was at Liverpool last night, either. I don't think this deal will go ahead. The club know he's also a marketing tool with all this #TEAMKONE
After many years weve finally found ourselves a strong defensive partnership to take us to the next level. Ill be fuming if we cash in on Kone without given up a fight to keep him, it shows a complete lack of self respect and ambition on our behalf. Im not bothered how much the fee is, we will need to spend a similar fee to replace him and we could earn an extra 18m by keeping him and being 5 places higher up in the league!
I disagree, Having players in demand represents progress and to continue to progress these players will be sold and squad will have to evolve. It's the nature of the beast when we find ourselves with real quality instead of poor player we can't shift. We were on the right tract when we sold hendo, mig and bent for an insane amount of money but Bruce wasted every penny(the money was made available just wasted) and we failed to evolve. This same challenge is presenting itself now and this time we need to spend well to continue to progress. The alternative is sign **** players and eventually go down. Sign very good players, they will move on and we need evolve, it's the next step in progression from the shower of **** we've just spent half a decade watching. The reality is we're nowhere near the stage where we can keep our best players. That will take European qualification to fulfill our best players personal career goals. Until then we sell and reinvest. Like every other club mid to lower end of the league club. And yes, hopefully the Likes of Khaz and Jan are next, then we need to go out and find a couple more. It's simply the next stage in progrssion. Better than a squad of Grahams and Fletchers we can't **** and loss a lot of money over.
next step in progression from the shower of **** we've just spent half a decade watching. More like 5 decades
yes i can fully appreciate that Bri and agree whole heartedly with it, i just thought that maybe we would have had another year or so prior to selling anyone, built a bit of a team then sell a couple at good profits then re invest, all sounds logical if ES gives Moyes the tools to do the job.
