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I'm sure that was the plan but Levy has a history of pricing players out of moves, as someone else said he seems to expect 2018 prices + a Levy premium on outgoings but only wants to pay 2008 prices on incomings, you can't have it both ways. The issue is that if we wait to shift players before we buy we are going to run out of time pretty quickly and miss out on our targets (if we haven't already) and there will be serious ramifications to that. No one is saying let them go for next to nothing but if we want to get our targets we may have to take the small risk that we end up selling some for less than Levy wants after 9 August or if not letting at least a couple go out on loan.
I've seen a couple of posters talking about letting them go for next to nothing etc... so it's happening with some (not all but some).
Who says Levy only wants to pay 2008 prices? Again if we're going by ITK we have the money and Levy is prepared to pay it, just to not go absolutely insane with it. I mean we did just buy Sanchez for 40+ mil last season so it's not like Levy isn't prepared to spend any money, but when players like Zaha are being priced at 70mil I don't blame Levy or anyone trying to strike a deal for less than that.
In an attempt to both reply to you and stick on topic of discussing ITK... the plan seemingly was to try and get the best deal, but the prolonged involvement of our players in the World Cup hasn't helped and we're now fully realising and seeing the impacts of our Transfer Window closing earlier. So the plan is changing. As Herc said, DL is no idiot and likely will bite the bullet on some. So not a sense of trying to have it both ways, more a sense of we tried one way which has got us where we are, it's not working now so now we change.
Point me too it if I've missed it but it doesn't sound like we've yet missed out on any of our targets, at least for time. ITK has just said Martial isn't coming to us but that's more Man Utd not selling than anything on us, so there's not really any ITK to suggest we've missed our targets but there is ITK saying that Grealish is done and we expect 3 signings and to keep an eye on Monday-Wednesday.
So whilst I get the worry for sure, ITK and how it's all panning out makes sense and is has been told and as I feel should have been expected.