Some see it differently. I think a lot were guilty of getting caught in the, “it’s impossible for us to win without Zaha” trap. If we had maximised his value by selling say when Pepe went to Arsenal and reinvested in a couple of players like we eventually did with Olise and Eze then we may have been better off immediately.

In my opinion it’s a similar mentality to those who thought that because Roy couldn’t get a tune out of our players, no one could. I think this will ultimately be proved totally wrong.

No one can argue against your last sentence but it’s having the belief that you can buy well and improve the team by selling for big money and investing wisely that will give you the same net result.

Guehi is probably the most likely to be sold. This is really his first big injury.

Doucoure has not only signed a new contract, but is out with a long term injury. Any clubs interested will see how he gets on post injury

Olise is interesting. From all accounts he has an increased release clause to be activated in the summer. Say it's 50m to 60m, are clubs going to spend that amount of money on someone who had multiple injuries this season ?

Again, they may wait to see if he recovers with fitness stability.

Eze on the other hand could well be on the radar for many clubs in the summer.

I would hope to get a lot more than £110m for Olise and Guehi, as I would think both should go for north of £65m, so I would firmoee like £130m and hope a large chunk of that is spent on strengthening the squad.

You know, I can usually work my way through typos (and I do many of my own - note edited), but I need a little help with this one.

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I think FFP will soon bite and the price of players will soften.
Either that or the Big 6 will join a European Super League. Arab money will be thrown at that, rest assured.

Burnley? or did you mean Everton?