Mate, that £45million isn't worth a ****e once you lose the only player keeping you out of the championship and another asset stripping of Pettyesque preportions. On the other hand, you could reinvest that £45million into unmovable "Sissoko" bonds, so durable even your American owners won't be able to flush him out of the club.
It sure is worth it ... we've been selling " The only Player keeping us up " for 6 seasons to the point were in the black in transfers overall for those 6 seasons with people telling us the same thing your saying now every season .... we've been going down every one of those seasons in most neutrals eyes but hey ... were still here Llorente kept us up last season more than Siggy IMO , with over one third of our open play goals .
Siggy was a good deal for Swansea. He wanted to leave Spurs to play regular football in his best position and AVB and Gilet Tim weren't able to see what he could be for us. Mauricio Pochettino didn't want to sell him but arrived on the scene too late. However, it allowed Christian Eriksen to grow into a better player and gave us space for Dele Alli. So, Swansea are winners and fair play to them and we get a little taste of Everton's gravy if/when the deal happens. Siggy's a winner in that he'll get a massive salary from whoever employs him for the next few years and almost certainly more than he could get with us. Unfortunately, he'll never play in the Champions League but £150k per week will help with that. As Björn and Benny said, so prophetically, "Everyone's a Winner, Baby"
You and I both know that last season wasn't like previous seasons, that relegation fight was a very close run thing. Off the top of my head only the sale of Bony comes close to Sigurdson, and theres a world of difference when you're finishing 8th to when you're finishing 17th. I like Swansea, don't get me wrong, but sans Siggy i have serious concerns about the survival chances for next season and long term when the yanks realise promotion is not as easy as it seems.
That's another thing .. the new American owners hiked his salary in his new contract waaay up , if he goes our 80% of our money spent on salary's will ease a bit
Our worst season ever with Siggy , Llorente and Mawson .... Keep in mind , Swansea's players played under 4 different managers last season if you count Curtis's brief spell . How you suppose to learn anything constructive changing that many managers . That was our biggest problem last seaon .
See, it's all good.....as long as Huddersfield, Brighton and Newcastle are really ****......or you reinvest in Moussa Sissoko and Kevin Wimmer. Then it's perfect. Perfect.
Apparently Bony prefers a move to Marselle and as for Llorente , if he wants to go to Chelsea ( I think Chelsea will be taking a chance on the old timer at his age and with his bike injury a few weeks back ) we should get him a private jet to London and line the streets as he goes to the airport . We WOULD have been relegated without him last season IMO
Ah yes, that sounds a bit better. My memory's not what once it was. Add some red wine and things get very hazy. I went to Law School with a Gooner who was a neighbour of Errol Brown. Never cared for either of them, personally.
If anything the final stages of last season was a contest to see who'd be joining Sunderland and Middlesbrough: Palace and Watford were just as abysmal as Hull in the last half dozen games, to the point they should consider themselves lucky they were marginally ahead of Hull at the end of April - as that's the only thing that kept them up.
