It doesn't paint us as small time, virtually every team in the league does the same thing.It's all well and good talking about it being good business, but IMO it paints us as small time, a club that sells its better players on and never aspires to having a first XI to be proud of.
You can't just stay on this merry go round of selling your star players and bringing in replacements who might do a similar job. You end up treading water at best, relegated at worst.
There is no bright side to the likes of Kone leaving. Simple as that.
Yes, we move on, pointless crying about it etc. but it'd be a very bad indication to me that this is how the club will always be run.