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Jack Clarke

Remember when the club said we don't need to sell any player about 6 weeks ago?

Must have for got they had £0 transfer budget to sign a striker
Season tickets needed renewing then though

They’ve got bums on seats now so no need to lie anymore
 

It's hard to say promotion is the aim when it seems we were desperate for someone to put a reasonable bid in for him, so we could keep the lights on and sign a few more punts that mostly haven't worked out

Aye, it’s the unfortunate reality.

We could have kept him and sold him for the same price next summer imo. Even if it was to be one of the relegated sides.
 
This is The Model In Action.
Well I mean it’s 50 percent of the model.

The other half of it starts now, supposedly. Because only when we sell players for big fees will we start shopping in a bigger pond for better players and spending more on recruits

Literally their words of how the model works, we shall see how that goes eh
 
This whole argument of us selling him "cheaply" entirely hinges on us as fans deciding that our valuations of our players are the only correct ones and are free of any kind of bias. Clearly he was not worth what we think he was if we've got to the last week of the transfer window and nobody has bid any higher than this.

Even taking into account our red and white tinted specs, £15 million is way below value when compared to other transfers in this league for players that objectively aren't as good or as important to their team as Clarke.

I'm not one for obsessing over transfer fees but as things stand our ability to buy is heavily weighed on what we can sell for.
 
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