I bet you had the same view on £60mil Lavia or £115mil Caicedo. Even Rice. DMs were never valued at those figures.
Who would you put a higher value on DM Caicedo or CB Branthwaite?
Everton do not need to sell for lower than the value they put on him and that should factor the benefit in keeping him for 3 years and his potential fee then.
Colwill is a year younger and a different kind of defender. The others are at big clubs who can ask any fee they wish.
Comes back to Rooney for me. We sold him for 50% of his value at that time. If we had waited 3 seasons we could have made a far higher deal.
Colwill is a year younger but at the moment yes.
The fee would need to be such that we could sign 3 young players who would improve the team far more than holding onto him.
The only real risk in keeping him is injury.