Sims wrote:To say you don’t give a f**k about resale is being ignorant to the clubs current situation
We’re not going to challenge for the next few years, we need as much financial strength as we can so we can pick out players who will become good as soon as the top two sides decline
Yeah agreed, this is the thing that a lot of people are forgetting.
Kroenke and the club have made it abundantly clear he has no intention of injecting any of his money into the club. And that they will persist with this self-sustaining model.
This means a lot of our income will be generated from match day revenue, commercial deals and player sales.
If this is what the club are going to do for the foreseeable future, then 'resale value' is important because it means:
1) if a player doesn't cut it for us, they are still at an age where we can sell them to a club who feel they are young enough to improve. We've already got too many mediocre/ageing players on lucrative contracts that we've been unable to shift.
2) if a player is doing extremely well, or if there is a youth prospect that someone wants to take a punt on, and a club offers a big fee, then the profit we make on that transfer can be reinvested into strengthening other parts of the team. Liverpool have mastered this art and we could learn a thing or two from them.
Obviously there's a calculated risk of what is this player worth now, what will he be worth in the future and is it worth selling if we can't significantly strengthen the side, but the club have to be smart about the decisions they make.
On the basis of Brahim Diaz going to Real Madrid from Man City for £22m and Dominic Solanke going to Bournemouth from Liverpool for £19m - both of whom have proved nothing at the top level yet - if a club in the summer tables a £50m/£60m bid for Reiss-Nelson, would any of us take it? He looks a top prospect, but it would be hard to say no, in my opinion.