His attacking play is well and truly developing. He is very clever at finding space always, happy to work in small areas, can dribble....the last bit would make him a 'complete' modern day full back. I am 'highly' awaiting his first goal....literally

Possibly the most southern eagle in the world!

Yes I feel exactly the same. But 'if' that insane offer does come in then this would be my first step in covering the position.

Money is secondary is a naive statement in 2019 regarding the premier league.

Remember when we almost went out of business? Money was as primary then as it is now.

Players get sold all over the world, all the time, by “serious” clubs. We need to face reality regarding needing to sell one of AWB or Zaha.

If we can get 50 mil only a fool would say no.

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United offered 40 mill. We asked for 60 mill and they have come back with a second offer of 50mill. second bid shows there is intent from united to get their man and its not a derisory increase in the bid. They seem serious and I expect AWB to go now for something like 52 mill plus add ons which is good sensible business for us.

I think you are right, If we got say £50m for AWB I reckon max £25m to be reinvested into the squad. That doesn’t get much, I mean it doesn’t even get you a decent right back theses days

It will be £50m plus I suspect but if SP is clever enough he can do a deal on Wilf's settlement at the same time.
Man Utd get their player, we write off a sell on debt clause on Wilf and we know where we are.
Also - if we sell AWB (which I don't want to happen by the way) then it strengthens our hand against idiots like Levy coming in with derisory offers for Wilf.
We didn't really need the money anyway but if AWB sells for £50m odd then we definitely don't need it!

It'd be a huge shame to see him leave, but it isn't everyday that Man Utd come knocking, regardless of what state they're in.

If we can get £50M with the majority up front, then we have to think about accepting it.

As much as he has been fantastic, losing a RB isn't as bad as losing a forward player (Zaha) IMO.

As a few others have said on here, if we can invest, say £25M in the squad, that'd be a good step to strengthen other areas.

We have done well to only really sell Bolasie since our time back in the Prem, so he'd go with my best wishes.

I think we should hang on to our best players, especially home-grown, and push for Europe. Why should we give in to the Man Utd's when they wave their cash? Show some intent. Southampton and Swansea are "selling clubs" and where has it got them?

The salary issue is a serious problem that I hadn't really considered. AWB will be on a low salary, doesn't matter what we sell him for, we wont be able to buy even one equivalent replacement because any recruit would want higher wages and I understand we are at maximum wages under FFP rules. So the talk of investing 50 million in two or three quality players just cannot happen unless we sell more of the squad.

The decision then becomes:

do we make 50 million this year and hope we can hang on another year with a weakened squad and invest next year when one or two of our high earners are off the books?

Or, do we hope AWB has another good year and retains his value so we can sell him at the end of the season and have the wage capacity to buy a decent replacement?

I know, we could sell the likes of Benteke. But would he go and who in their right mind would buy him?