Theres no point in losing sleep over this. I am resigned to losing Jose in the summer, and if not Tiote, then in the next January window, or the summer after that. Selling players is now a fact of life, no matter who you are. Only city and Chelsea can afford to not sell a player if the right offer comes in. There will always be someone to replace them. The world is full of very talented, young footballers waiting to be discovered.
I am sure we will be getting plenty of money in the summer, I really am. Why would we not get the money? Progress is a slow process and thinking we can come up from the championship and make massive signings, get straight into Europe whilst holding onto all of our best players is silly really! Theres a part of me that thinks we should get into Europe, and then maybe that will tempt Jose and Tiote to stay, and Barton to commit himself to us - but theres another part of me that feels we are not ready. If we got into Europe and Tiote and Jose left in the last few days of the window, and we hadn't replaced them, we would be in big big trouble!
We might well lose players in the summer, and we just have to live with it. I am very confident that we will see some serious doe come this summer, and we will be looking quite a force come next season