What about if he actually wants to play regular football, and sees what has happened to Barry, Milner, Young and Downing? None left Villa to become first team regulars and their careers have stuttered as a result. Let's not forget Milner, Downing and Young were regular England internationals when they were here and now make the odd squad.
It will depend where Benteke's ambitions lie, in terms of playing football. If we look like we are going to try and build this year instead of selling, like we did when Liverpool came in for Barry, we might be able to hold onto him and achieve a finish closer to the top six. That could be enough to attract better players and also provide a good reason to keep players like Benteke here.
The clearout must be close to an end now. We've scat most of the high earners and the squad is young and improving. Restoring this team and adding a solid central midfielder and a couple of centre halfs and we should be a fucksight better than we are now, and we are only three points of mid table now.