Is that not a problem every club faces though? Chelsea can't shift Drinkwater and the likes, United with Jones, Arsenal had to pay Ozil to leave, Spurs have Rose, lower down Palace are releasing 16 players this summer of mostly deadwood. not sure what he can do when some players in the squad are on 4/5 times what they're actually worth. He's failed by giving players like Keane an extension making him harder to shift and buying Iwobi/Bernard in the first place but for the players already here when he joined its just one of those things. You can't force them to leave and you can't force a team to buy them. As DoF his job is to buy a squad capable of challenging and making us sustainable, which at the moment he's failing at. It's also a far bigger picture than just buying and selling players.
The selling aspect is completely out of his control, Sandro was willing to go early whilst Besic and Bolasie were happy to stay and see out their ludicrous contracts. Nobody in the world could convince me there's someone so good at being a DoF they were able to sell Bolasie despite bombing out of two championship clubs, a Belgian side and a Portuguese side. His only deadwood he could've realistically sold was Kenny last summer and even then Burnley and Schalke wouldn't stump up 10 million for him. Sometimes deadwood is exactly that and it's just a waiting game, the problem is he keeps buying more deadwood in Delph, Iwobi, King, Gbamin (maybe harsh) and extending Keane and apparently Sigurdsson.
