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Don’t talk rubbish. Not one person has said, nor implied - ‘let’s get loads of money for Butland, or other players, and use it to buy bang average players.’ Any comments are about using the money for Clement to rebuild. If, however, you’re happy with the squad we’ve got, and don’t think we need to move players on and get new ones in (unlike every successful club in the world), then your thoughts on selling players make perfect sense.

I was using Wright as an example of a player we brought to the club rather than selling him.    You make my point - once  we have found a decent player we should keep them because nobody can be trusted to gamble their profit.     

Yes they are suggesting that. Who did we get off the back of - Aribo, Bassey, Patterson? nobody of very much significance  that’s who, just a whole load of bang average players that did nothing but steal a wage and hang about like a bad smell    

No one is buying Scott Wright. You don't tend to get many offers for shite players. Selling players when they are at their highest ceiling is what this club has to be doing now, this isn't the 90s anymore. We are a stepping stone for players to bigger things and if we can make significant money on transfer like Butland who was a free then we are going to take it. The club would be negligent if it didn't. We don't have a Sheik funding the running of the club, if we want to be self sufficient we need to be selling players at the right time. Not the fans fault we spent our European money and Bassey money on utter shite. You can't judge future sales and purchases based on that, that's daft.

It means I understand the necessity of it. It's the same model used by big clubs in Holland and Portugal. Why would we be any different?