MartyMcFly
Player Valuation: £15m
The negative lesson of earning an extra 10m and keeping the player for another season. I don't buy into the idea Stones wasn't interested last season. He had his Euros place to play for so there is no way that is true.Or the club has learnt the lesson of last season re Stones and how keeping a player that wants out can be celebrated in the moment but that glee will almost have a negative impact as the season progresses.
Likewise. Lukaku is a professional and he has team mates. He won't want to let them down plus look at Barinho - he through his rattle out of the pram and his form suffered and now look at him, no one wants him. Don't sell and after the window closes give him a new contract with a buyout clause.
If we sell him now and the striker we bring in doesn't perform which is a big risk we would be in a relegation battle.