You can easily flip all that round Bob.
Why sell Clarke for less than he's worth and is actually a senior player who's already proven. Other players, like Neil, Hume, etc, have become, or are becoming, senior players and will be better than last season imo, Cirkin, and others, were really missed and will really improve the team.
Why buy a Mickey Mouse CF or be bullied by agents as we've been so often in the past.
As for Speakman, so he thinks he's right all the time ...
... everyone does, including you.
I'm positive about the club because they're looking at the long term unlike previous owners. Selling Clarke and punting that money might get us up but, then again, it might not. It might upset the dressing room at a time when good players, like Ballard, want to be here. Speakman, and the coaches, don't seem to put these players off nor those like Browne who want to come here.
Hopefully a CF wil want to come, as well, and not just the kind of mercenaries we've had in the past. The last thing we need is to bring one in, on a 3/4 year contract who eventually leaves for nothing having made himself and his agent wealthy. There's a long list of players who fit that description and I'd rather we didn't add to it.