we'd probably end up giving them Benteke And 5m for Livermore on a 6 month loan, paying him 100k a week in the process
They managed to get a good deal for downing so may have learnt from past mistakes, levy himself has paid a lot of money for dross.
i see your downing (by the way a player we wouldn't sell for 50m apparently) and I'll raise you a given, Ireland, Hutton, Jenas, Makoun
In all honesty that only proves that they've let the managers sign some bad/average players and put them on too high wages. When it comes to selling, which is the discussion about Benteke, they've done quite well. Held out for Barry and got a rather good deal for a player on his last year of the contract. Same with Young. And both wanted to leave. Good money for Downing. As it were back then I'd even say that we got pretty good money for Cahill. Milner too, although that deal wasn't the best deal they've done. Quite bad, actually, as it seems they did that without the managers approval or any manager at all. And Milner would've stayed. That's the one real f*k up they've done when it comes to selling players. So I'm not that worried when it comes to selling players. They've made other misstakes that they can take blame for.
We never got good money for Cahill.