hs6bx wrote:theHotHead wrote:hs6bx wrote:A player is only worth what someone is willing to pay for them. Simple as that. Football is about winning trophies - why should we as fans be prioritising the profit the club makes over success? We shouldn’t care about profit as long as we are successful and sustainable.
Are you willing to take a step back even further next year by selling our top goalscorer and gambling on a new striker working out? Or would you rather pay the man who you know will deliver and slowly introduce the young strikers we have whilst having a Great role model?
Because selling Auba and reinvesting the money puts us in a stronger position in 3 years time than winning the odd Cup trophy but losing the player and earning nothing once his contract ends. Keeping Auba didn't get us CL football and it won't next year. Building a better team by using the funds from the sale of Auba would help us far more.
Now, thats the logic behind what EK and Jayram are saying and it makes perfectly logical sense. Now, whether you can accept taking a step back (loss of Auba), to take 2 steps forward (investing the Auba money in a younger forward for longevity) is a different argument. Liverpool sold their best players and used the money to invest in improving their squad. Are you going to tell me they made a mistake ??
No guarantee mate. Tottenham sold bale for 80m and wasted it all. Should we have sold bergkamp at 31, cazorla, Adams? By this logic you say sell them and reinvest in younger players for the future. It’s fine if you have top quality waiting in the wings to step in ala RvP, Adebayor etc. If not, it’s a big gamble to let your best players and biggest contributors go. Plus it sets a very poor precedent for the rest of the team if we let him go.
Hmm, Spurs got to a CL final after selling Bale, challenged for the title too (seriously challenged)
With Bale - league positions - 11,8,4,5,4,5
Without Bale - league positions - 6,5,3,2,3,5,6
I'd say they took a fairly big step up after Bale left. They made steady improvement for 5 years and almost got to the top of all European football. This is Spurs we're talking about here. Unfathomable whilst Bale was there.
As for Bergkamp , Cazorla and Adams - if those players were demanding huge wages at that age and holding out on signing a new contract well into the transfer window, then yeah, they should have been sold at 31. They were not, though. Club legends like that should not be mentioned in the same breath as Aubameyang - a contract hold out stringing th fans along onm twitter and instagram to aid his negotiating position. You would never have seen Bergkamp, Cazorla or Adams doing that in the media of their day.