Interesting thought, I can definitely see this happening. No more of the 200+ Million for a young player like Mbappe when they can get them for much cheaper on the free.
I agree with you, we need to stop selling to the top 6 teams if we ever want to hope of competing with them and trying to surpass them. Honestly when we sold Stones and Lukaku away to the Manchester's I was furious. We gave them two of our best players to the top teams, they kept getting better...
I mean they are not wrong... we cannot offer him European football, sure we can probably afford his high wages (especially if we shed dead weight) but he is the kinda guy that would want European competition
I really doubt we would get Rabiot (his wages would be super high and why would he come to a team that doesn't have European competition) He also has a bit of an attitude problem which our boy Gomes does not. Even though he would be an upgrade I feel more comfortable and confident we keep Gomes