tolmie's hairdoo
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At a guess the FFP rules allow a loss of £90m in a year. The slight issue with replacing Aguero is he's running his contract down, so it's not like we're selling him in 2 years and using funds to replace him. They'll have to come from somewhere and the conveyor belt of youth being sold for decent amounts helps only a little bit. So we have to accept that despite our undoubted funds/resources, to keep the squad fresh, we'll have to sell players. Now for me Sterling or Gundogan or the highest value players we could cope with losing (Not saying they should go btw).
Good post. Suppose we would find ourselves in a bit of a Liverpool situation if a top player suddenly thinks the grass is greener and can still realise £70m plus for any of our guys to replace with sufficient quality. For me, Mahrez is a steal in that regard.
As the squad stands, unless you sell crown jewels such as Sane or De Bruyne, which just ain't happening, you move to the next tier down and it's players such as Sterling who bring in the dough.
Getting no money for Sergio, like Yaya, could ultimately come back to bite us on the arse at some point in the future.
Mbappe turning us down twice was a killer :(