It's easier because you're getting mega-millions and freeing up a big chunk of the wage budget.
It's probably not so easy to replace Gibson, Pienaar and Osman though..... Not rocket science really, is it?
Have to LOL at people waiting to attack everything that he says.
Hmmm lets see -, Gibson - replaced by Besic who cost 2m
Pienaar replaced - well with no one really as Martinez doesn't seem to believe in left sided players does he, but for arguments sake - he was replaced with cleverley for nothing
Osman - an academy lad - could say he was replaced by anothe racademy lad in barkley
So we sell Lukaku fr arguments sake for 60m and free up a huge chunk of our wage budget of arund 70-80k, we can then go out and easily replace his 25 goals like many teams regularly do, hmmm, wait their i see a flaw in this plan mate, Martinez next striker he bought for 13.5m and paid 55k pw so far has played 29 mins either because of a career threathening sore wrist, or because he is utterly terrible
What club outisd the top 4 has sold a player like lukaku - who basically is the goals for the team and came out strogner the followign season - Liverpol with Suarez?, Spurs with Bale? even United with Ronaldo?
It is utter bs from this manager again, he knows he has zero chance to keep any of them here as they all want to jump off the HMS Martinez as it's sinking, and he is doing his usually positive spin on things again, only thing is 'most' of us have cottoned onto this by now only a few die hard ones are left to swallow it up