£1m is a crazy low fee for anybody in the premiership....but what were people expecting him to be sold for? In the grand scheme of a asummer window, getting £1m or £6/7m for Iqbal really makes little difference to our budget.
I am just happy a player not going to be part of our plans is moved on and a space is freed up in the squad and wages of the books....For me Shoetire,Bailly, Telles, Williams can all move in a similar way, none of them hold any value that combined with Iqbal all of them godo case and bad case sales is probably £20/25m difference.
What is of more concern is that certain youngsters get oportunities....like Pellestri, Hannibal, Mainoo. People saying over hyping youngsters maybe noewhere near good enough....only saw that at all wih Oqbal in preseason. I dont think Pellestri is overhyped at all, look at what he is doing for Uruguay. Hannibal may or may not make it here, but he has obvious technical ability and heart....and Mainoo has everything to be a top player if he develops......potential understudy to Casemeiro.
The other concern is moving other players on and they should be ones to raise money....Henderson, Elanga, VDB, Maguire etc etc....there is a good £150m worth of sales we should be getting in this summer, Iqbal is literally irrelevant to that, always was