Quote Originally Posted by WBA123 View Post
I will probably buck the trend here, but I disagree with you. I wouldn't sell Johnny Evans for £30m because I think he's our best player.

In terms of whether or not we have performed well in the transfer market, we bought Rondon for £12m and I think we could get more than that for him if we sold him. Plus he's scored some ***** goals for us in the last couple of years, goals that have probably kept us in the league. So even if we let his contract run down I still think he was a good purchase.

Chadli we bought for £13m and there were rumours we were going to sell him for twice that much to Leicester or Swansea in the summer. Chester, I think we sold him for roughly what we bought him for (or even made a small profit).

Livermore, isn't my cup of tea. But he's an England squad regular and we'd easily recoup the £10m we paid for him, as we would for Burke and Rodriguez.

In terms of player quality you may have a point. But in terms of investments you can't argue with our transfer policy. Had we signed a 32 year old for £15-20m I would agree with you. But our policy seems to be that we buy players who we can recoup our cash on if things go south
Actually 123 most on here seem to side with you. I've always been a bit of a risk taker. Good job we have some steady eddies in the world or as my wife calls them 'sensible people'