Txiki Begiristain

Players we've sold since Txiki arrived and the transfer fees that were reported at the time:

2012/13

Mario Balotelli - AC Milan £22m

2013/14

Carlos Tevez - Juventus £7.6m

2014/15

Javi Garcia - Zenit £13m
Jack Rodwell - Sunderland £10m

2015/16

Alvaro Negredo - Valencia £23.7m
Marcos Lopes - Monaco £9m
Matija Nastasic - Schalke £7m
Karim Rekik - Marseille £3.5m
Scott Sinclair - Aston Villa £2.5m
Dedryk Boyata - Celtic £1.5m

2016/17

Stevan Jovetic - Inter £14.25m
Edin Dzeko - Roma £14m

2017/18

Kelechi Iheanacho - Leicester £25m
Wilfried Bony - Swansea £12m
Enes Unal - Villarreal £12m
Aaron Mooy - Huddersfield £10m
Nolito - Sevilla £8m
Aleksandar Kolarov - Roma £5.8m
Fernando - Galatasaray £5.25m
Samir Nasri - Antalyaspor £3.2m

2018/19

Brahim Diaz - Real Madrid £15.5m
Angus Gunn - Southampton £13.5m
Jason Denayer - Lyon £12m
Pablo Maffeo - Stuttgart £8.8m
Joe Hart - Burnley £3.5m
Bersant Celina - Swansea £3m

2019/20

Danilo - Juventus £34m
Douglas Luiz - Aston Villa £15m
Fabian Delph - Everton £8.5m

2020/21

Leroy Sane - Bayern Munich £54.8m
Nicolas Otamendi - Benfica £13m

2021/22

Ferran Torres - Barcelona £55m
Angelino - Leipzig £16.3m
Jack Harrison - Leeds £11m
Lukas Nmecha - Wolfsburg £11m

2022/23

Raheem Sterling - Chelsea £47.5m
Gabriel Jesus - Arsenal £45m
Oleksandr Zinchenko - Arsenal £32m
Pedro Porro - Sporting £7.2m
Arijanet Muric - Burnley £3m

2023/24

Riyad Mahrez - Al Ahli £30m
That Danilo sale still looks a bit iffy to me, but agree, he's done a fantastic job. Soriano, Txiki & Pep are a great combination.
 
He’s done some great business but his job must be easier now than when he first arrived. The club is a financial beast , a model of a well run successful business. He can go into negotiations and say here it is accept it or fuck off.

When working under constraints he was terrible. Post-FFP he’s been able to pay the asking price of very very good players, leading to very very good results on the pitch.

Cook and Marwood had much harder jobs, and generally achieved more relative to the competition at the time, and selling the dream to players who really had no business signing for us.
 

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