Totally agree but the level of player up there is league 1 / Championship. Just because they've won a few trebles in Scotland doesnt mean they can cut it anywhere else, as was proven, they can't.
They literally have missed out on champions league because they didn't sell. A good LB at that level doesn't mean much but if they sold him to us they could of really strengthened across the team to have a good push into the group's. They'll be looking to sell in Jan now.
Would he be classed as a Judas though if he didn't? He may have his own plans and 5 years at Everton and move on may have well been that plan. Lots of players get tagged with things for running down a contract and leaving a club but it may never have been their plan. Barkley and the like being...
It can also make a player who's at Barca even consider someone like us as they will know if they fulfill their own ambitions and are as good as their ego tells them, theyll be bought back.