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Quentin's Play-Telescope said:
Forgive me if I'm wrong but can I be so bold to suggest that you just may be clutching at straws?
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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 [HASHTAG]#TEAMKONE[/HASHTAG]
 
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!
 
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Teessidemakem said:
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!
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We will never get to the next level at thes state
We always sell our best players
 
Charley Farley said:
I'm dead against this possible deal.

We have a fantastic partnership with him and Kaboul. Anything else would be a step backwards.

We have a threadbare squad and our CB's would then be JOS and Kaboul with very little cover.
The new lad is an unknown quantity at the moment.

When we sold Henderson and Bent, was the reported £40 million spent on new players? I don't think so. I think £18 million coming in would mean perhaps a £5 million replacement bought and the rest of the money would disappear into our accounting system.

Sell Kone and we are much weaker. We must keep him and add quality not sell our best players.
Who's next? Khazri? Kirchhoff?

We all know how small our squad is and any replacement of our top players will surely be with inferior ones.

We must not sell him.
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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.
 
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next step in progression from the shower of **** we've just spent half a decade watching.
More like 5 decades
 
Bri OBE said:
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.
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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.
 
Charley Farley said:
I'm dead against this possible deal.

We have a fantastic partnership with him and Kaboul. Anything else would be a step backwards.
This.

We have a threadbare squad and our CB's would then be JOS and Kaboul with very little cover.
The new lad is an unknown quantity at the moment.

When we sold Henderson and Bent, was the reported £40 million spent on new players? I don't think so. I think £18 million coming in would mean perhaps a £5 million replacement bought and the rest of the money would disappear into our accounting system.

Sell Kone and we are much weaker. We must keep him and add quality not sell our best players.
Who's next? Khazri? Kirchhoff?

We all know how small our squad is and any replacement of our top players will surely be with inferior ones.

We must not sell him.
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