Yep. Take Tuanzebe (after Villa loan) and Henderson (just this summer). We could’ve easily got £20m and £25-30m for the pair respectively. Give or take a few million with the inclusion of a sell-on or buyback clause too.
The club have a weird thing where every young player with any level of promise must be wrung out here until they’re about 23/24 before they’re actually moved on.
I'd be fuming if we sold Henderson. A keeper with that talent should be kept and fast tracked. Not sold for 25mil when you couldn't by a replacement for anything like that. He'll likely be our no.1.
There are some cases where in hindsight we should have sold but I want us to be about youth. Not just buying anyone.
Only good business Lpool have done this window is Thiago. No other club would have got him, certainly not for that price. Thats because theyre probably second best team in the world.
Our big issue is our ridiculous salaries that stop us moving anyone on when we eventually want to. Meaning we have a bloated squad.