it's all to do with hindsight, if we saw a list of the players we'd buy with his sale, it could possibly change people's mind. if you buy 4 absolute wonder talents for that money in the positions we need strengthening the team will be so much better and we could achieve a lot more.
but it's the fact he's a blue from the youth, and rightly so that gets people. ideally we want to see a true blue win trophies with him being the focal point, but nothing's ideal these days. he's had a couple of injuries as well, it's a risk to buy him when he is still just potential, but it's also a risk to keep him turning down a massive bid because of that very fact.
we're top 4 challengers atm, if you buy a wonderful keeper, centre back, left winger and replacement for ross with that money, you're breaking into that top 4 and reaping the benefits straight away.
so yeah, i'm fence-sitting. don't want to see any of our players sold, especially not this one, but if we get better as a team, i'm not going to complain tbh.
just wait to see if anything comes of these rumours first tbh.