No offence thats one example.
Then you can give examples of teams holding onto players successfully and then having stormers. Suarez, modric, bale, de gea,
That has a slight issue.... not one of those players refused to play, the worst was modric who felt levy lied to him totally... also as i said everton v relatively big clubs... saints are more in every one place in this.the player knows that saints want to survive. Just like Everton under old bill were only ever making ends meet.
If saints battle against him going the very best they can hope for is what you have said. The most likely is they will end up selling and not having a replacement.... If they are stubborn about it.
City, Chelsea or us could buy him for all I know.... the best result for saints was 6 weeks ago collecting the 70mil and not complaining to fa about an innocent stroll down the pair at Blackpool
then spending the wedge on 3 players... Like Everton have done with lukaku. Unfortunately they got stubborn, complained.. alienated the player who should have known better anyway, the agent who is useless and now it's a bad situation for them.It's just as bad or a tally worse than us and sahko as we just binned him off. They can't afford to do that
