Are City bad at selling?

Selling is not the club's priority. Climbing the ladder to establish ourselves at top level has been number one priority since the takeover.

Nevertheless, we have improved in the last year or two at recruiting exciting young players with potential to grow. Not all will become superstars but many will appreciate in value. The same might be said for some of our academy products. Consequently, I would expect our overall poor selling record to take a turn for the better.
 
I would imagine we do a lot better this transfer window in player sales. Apparently, the club are counting on it.
 
We're not particularly bad at selling (although the fee we got for de Jong after he'd just been Holland's best player at the Euros was remarkably shite!) it's that we keep hold of most of the players that we'd want to rather than lose them to bigger clubs which shows that we do things well as players don't want to leave or say that they feel like a slave to the club or that they want to move if we don't start buying better players like the other lot over in Stretford deal with when it comes to their star players. The players we sell are the deadwood or forgotten about bench players that really we should never have bought in the first place and who we bought for inflated prices and pay them too much so it's always going to be hard to sell them.
 
We are still losing the balance of selling to buying, but we have got better.

not many years ago we paid top whack and lost money with players hanging on for wages ( WAYNE BRIDGE, best played golfer in GB ).

Now we have the young players from our academy player factory going out on loan and decent transfer fees from them.. Our players no longer required are actually now being sold or going out free transfer rather than they sit on their arse on the payroll.

Still disillusioned though when it comes to selling hart / kolarov / Fernando / delph.. If we keep putting clubs off with a high selling price they will end up in loan and we will get fk all for them. Just get shut for 8 million each and bank it. It was said last week city hope to rake in 100 million off sales of players, dream on !

But we are getting better, unlike those idiots over the road in Salford who are slowly holding on to dead wood and going to end up like we where 8 years ago !
 
Aaron Mooy - looks like a good deal all round for him, his career, Huddersfield and City. Is this a sign of some the benefits of the City Football Group and CITY with more to come?
 
The scenario is:

United, Liverpool and Arsenal sign Fred from the Dog n Duck and the media big him up so much even though he ends up scoring 2 goals in 30 games they end up of loading him for £25m after only buying for £2m.

We sign a top notch player who scored 20 in 30 and the media report how he's only here for the money, he's no longer got the legs, he is disruptive in training etc etc and we have to offload for whatever we can get for him.

There is no agenda though it's pure coincidence of course.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
We're not particularly bad at selling (although the fee we got for de Jong after he'd just been Holland's best player at the Euros was remarkably shite!) it's that we keep hold of most of the players that we'd want to rather than lose them to bigger clubs which shows that we do things well as players don't want to leave or say that they feel like a slave to the club or that they want to move if we don't start buying better players like the other lot over in Stretford deal with when it comes to their star players. The players we sell are the deadwood or forgotten about bench players that really we should never have bought in the first place and who we bought for inflated prices and pay them too much so it's always going to be hard to sell them.
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I stopped reading when you started with bigger clubs and mentioned the rags
 
I'd like to know Chelsea's secret, they seem to get big money for everyone they sell.
 
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