Yeah. There is no incentive to earn a new deal. Then we see Shaw play well for a couple of weeks and get a bumper new deal. And Lindelof linked with Barca (great agent work) and he gets a bumper new deal too, without going into the new deals for the players no one else wants...Can’t remember what age he was but these 5 years contracts are killing us remember when players would get 3 years contracts as normal.
Erm, have you seen them since 2015?Real Madrid should have cashed in on Sergio Ramos back in 2015.
100%. We'd have at least a couple more titles if we got Aguero instead of City. Magnificent player.Unpopular opinion but we should have cashed in on Rooney and went for Aguero..
So at the moment he’s twice as good as what we have, seems a bargain to me!Diop last year to United, quoted for ~40m gbp.
Makes mistakes every second game.
a lot of people mentioning Zaha. But if he was the difference in keeping them in the league for 2 years, then he’s been worth keeping hold of.Sure Palace have had massive bids for Zaha they should maybe have taken.
agreed. My first one will be Sancho. Would have been a £100m player this summer, when he’s eventually sold, don’t think it will be anything close to that figure.I get the point but this is just a hindsight thread. A thread predicting who should be sold at the next window then tracking form/future fees etc would be more interesting.
Not if you've watched him play. Twice as many errors.So at the moment he’s twice as good as what we have, seems a bargain to me!
There's surely a lot hindsight in this.Still can't work out who was more silly, us for bidding or you for rejecting.
I remember seeing you in that 12/13 and while you were running away with the league I thought there was something missing certainly in comparison to prime Rooney. The explosiveness especially wasn't there anymore whenever I saw him while his first touch was starting to seriously desert him so that combined with his early start in football made me seriously worry he was bottoming out early, which were ultimately realised. Granted his goal record was still pretty decent but if you look at Lampard's goal record between 11-13 you'd say he was still close to his prime but you would know by watching us at that point he wasn't close to it.There's surely a lot hindsight in this.
Rooney had scored 35 goals in a season 11/12. 12/13 we had bought RVP so Rooney got pushed out and fell out with SAF.
At the end of that season Chelsea had just re-appointed Mourinho and were desperate for a striker so it would have been madness for us to strengthen a title rival with a striker that could potentially net them 30+ goals. Our position was we'd happily sell abroad but not to a top 4 English club.
You ended up playing Torres/Eto'o for the season and was not far off winning the league, you may have won it had you signed Rooney and got a solid season out of him. He was considered our best outfield player in the Moyes season from what I can recall which isn't saying much given how bad we were, but in a functioning side competing for the league I think he definitely had a good season or two left in him.
that’s a good shout. I’m not sure anyone was actually interested though. Hyped up by his agent to try and get a big move.Sergej Milinković-Savić of Lazio.
We didn't turn down that 30m for Rojo that the media made up, we'd have snapped their whole body off for it!Ronaldinho at Barca. I think it was 2006 or 2007 when Inter were offering something crazy like 100 million.
Barca turned it down. The next season Dinho's drinking problem went out of control. He was sold to A.C. Milan for 22 milion euros 2 years later.
Rojo to Everton in 2019.
Pogba to Real is another one that I thnik will come back to bite us in the ass.
Not so sure. With Suarez gone and supposedly Messi will eventually leave I could see Barcelona going in for Salah and Liverpool in for Sancho.I think Dortmund will certainly regret not cashing in on Sancho.
I remember him being linked with United as a potential De Gea replacement. Staggering decline.Stoke probably should've cashed in on Jack Butland around 2017 when he was still peforming o.k at prem level and regular in England squads.
Now he's next to useless and Stoke can't get rid of him to anyone.
We wanted £30m Everton only wanted a loan. We would have ripped their arm off if they offered £30mRojo to Everton and Januzaj to PSG, if rumours are to be believed.
For me, the point of this thread is players that should have been sold where the writing was on the wall and there was an offer on the table - Januzaj probably shouldn't be on the list based on this since he was very promising at the time.
Maybe Tarkowski, 28 this year, Burnley turned down 30-40m bid for him.
@Sandikan even the BBC reported that Everton were interested in Rojo.
That's one of those names that I saw and thought "oh yeah, he was a guy that existed!". It's weird. I watched him play with the England youth teams quite a bit. He was coming through around the same time as Kane. He even looked like a decent player.How the mighty have fallen
Strange really considering the buzz around him at the time.
thats what cost him the transfer according to HarryWest brom and Peter Odemwingie... hell, he was even in the parking at QPR
100% this. It's what I thought of as soon as I saw the title. There was a time when that Poch first XI would've been valued at close to a billion, when only a few of them would've been worth their fees.Peak Pochettino Spurs.
He had them playing well above their ability as a well coached team, and at one stage there were murmurings of massive bids for Dier, Rose, Alli, Alderweireld, Vertonghan and Eriksen.
It looks like a joke now, but there was a time when those 6 could have brought in 250 million+ and a chance to rebuild and strengthen the team with better players.
Levy understated the managers effect on the team and missed out on the chance to cash in and evolve.
Those players are now worth very little and they are in the middle of a very expensive rebuild that should have been done years earlier at potentially little cost.
But those players gave them 4-5 years worth of top 4 finishes and excellent CL runs. I think that is worth a lot more than making a short term profit on them and taking a risk with their replacements who may or may not come good.Peak Pochettino Spurs.
He had them playing well above their ability as a well coached team, and at one stage there were murmurings of massive bids for Dier, Rose, Alli, Alderweireld, Vertonghan and Eriksen.
It looks like a joke now, but there was a time when those 6 could have brought in 250 million+ and a chance to rebuild and strengthen the team with better players.
Levy understated the managers effect on the team and missed out on the chance to cash in and evolve.
Those players are now worth very little and they are in the middle of a very expensive rebuild that should have been done years earlier at potentially little cost.