2024/25 David Moyes

[mahermi1]

So we sold a player a year in advance in the hope that we’d do enough to convince a loan player to join after his loan spell.

I hate Kenwright as much as anybody but selling Fellaini wasn’t a grand plan to have money in situ to sign Lukaku permanently a year later. He’s not that clever. Majority of that money probably disappeared into Vibrac interest payments.

We do have something in common then ( Kenwright), but I will fail to disagree with you on lukaku mate. Romelu was signed on loan on the final day of the summer transfer window 2013 and Fellainis was sold to United on the 02 Sep, was that the final day to ? But we got rid of one huge wage for us and got another huge wage in. Lukaku stayed on loan until he was bought whilst still on loan. They were definitely linked though I admit the 10 months in between the actual deals. Whether the money or part of it went to Vibrac who knows but that Fellaini deal helped with paying for lukaku, whether it was wages loan fee and his actual signing. And if you can understand this rambling post, then you're better than me pal.