Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
The problem we have ballcock is that ALK & Pace have set the enterprise up on the philosophy of "player trading". They knew from the get-go we could never sustain the debt from "usual operations", so attempting to make large sums on individual player transfers had to be their modus operandi. Sir Outwood mentioned the 25 million quid sale of Chris Wood to Newcastle as being the precedent. I'm sure it was sinkov who at the time said without that amount of money coming in the whole enterprise would probably have gone under.

Like SD always said, "Fine Margins" and if 40 million is put on the table, Esteve is gone.
Nothing has changed since I started following BFC in the mid 1950's.