Let me ask you something, have you heard of one bid, or any real solid interest in ANY of the players wanting out? Toby for £25M is peanuts, wouldn't even have to haggle with Levy, even before the clause came in, was there any interest? Seam for Eriksen, have we had a report of ANY solid interest or and bid for the player?
The answer is no, and in my opinion the reason is simply this, they were happy to see out their contracts in order to get a free transfer. So they instructed their agents to simply tell any club they weren't interested in a move. How can Levy sell a player if he doesn't get a offer?
By not allowing players to get in to the last 12 months of their contract in the first place.
If a player has 2 years left on contract, then to avoid this situation, that is the time player needs to be sold, and for realistic not the prohibitive sales prices we placed on them.
Conscious decision was taken by club to keep them, so to say there was nothing Levy could do may be correct if you want to take this last window in isolation, but not acting a year earlier has caused this, and at that stage there was plenty the club could have done if they had so chosen, and plenty of interest. By not acting then player has zero incentive to ever sign a new contract, until his current one was fully expired.
So it is very disingenuous for anybody to be blaming the players who have entered last year of their contract, the fault for this lies with both manager and chairman, but it is the manager alone that will end up paying for it with his job (but get nice pay off) and us as fans, as the replacement of these players to even keep the status quo will be much harder to achieve when we don’t have the sales income, so may have to accept a team downgrade.
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