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Who?

You said you can accept failure I didn’t what is not clear?

I can’t. That’s clearly the difference

It’s a balance. Decent youth set up (Patterson) decent scouting (Diamonde) and selling assets (Goldson, Souter, Lammers, Matondo for example) there’s players that you can’t give away in a lucky bag so they need moved on at the end of their contract (Wright, Barisic, Lundsram) freeing up wages. I’m not saying it’s easy btw, but it’s harder to win stuff when you’re flogging your best players.

We won the league (helicopter Sunday) and league cup that year with the likes of Klos, Ricksen, Moore, Novo, Prso in the squad. Boumsong left and the following season we won fuck all, some re-investment that.

Standing still? You can’t read properly mate. I haven’t once said our current squad is good enough. We have a few decent players we need to hang onto that others are happy to get rid of.

Are you saying Diamonde, Sterling, Butland (hopefully Cortes) are not our future core?

Well they need to shut it when we fail season after season Because not in over a decade have we sold our best players and reinvested that money in a winning team. naivety

Not by selling our best prospects that’s for sure. 😂 Players that Clement see as our future, to work with and develop into players that will bring us success. what you describe is selling our best assets and keeping our shite (because nobody will have them) ergo we have a bang average team that continues to play second fiddle to them cunts in the East I’m dumbfounded that supporters think by selling our best players will give us money to buy even better players than what we just sold. It’s fucking bizarre and rarely has ever panned out that way. it’s a dream scenario a big fat unicorn of a strategy. Of course there is a balance to be struck because we need inward investment. But not when we only have three or four real assets. Let’s chat again when our team have won lots of stuff over a few seasons. But until then let’s just keep our best talent and put them to work

No. would you be happy for Diamonde to go for £10m?

You would - if we got decent offers for players that are part of a rebuild to sell them for another rebuild. bonkers

Ok I don’t. I’d be raging if Butland was sold And you would be a wee bit upset but you would understand and trust our board that say £10 was spent wisely. (because we have a great track record of that 😂)

So you only want shot of Butland when a decent offer comes in? Yes or no?

Of course we need shot of the majority of our players. My argument is against selling our best player(s) because we know what we have but don’t know what we are getting. Fans wanting shot of Butland is bizarre. But if you’re happy for him to go because £10m might get us some more unknown clobber then crack on. We should be building a team around him, Diamonde, Sterling and hopefully Cortes. Not flogging them at the first go

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.