In your opinion we currently only have Wan-Bissaka and Zaha as our top quality players. We also have no money to spend to build around Wan-Bissaka and Zaha.
We sell Wan-Bissaka for £50m and could potentially buy more top quality players and have a team where we have 3 or 4 big players rather than just 2.
You aren't happy with this at all would rather stick with what we have now. That says to me that you're the ambitionless one here, not the club.

Fantastic deal for both clubs, plenty of money to replace him with a quality or promising right back. Let's go get Max Aarons for 20mil, he'll be worth double within a year. Put the other 30mil into a striker and the squad has already been improved.

Unless we are in financial crisis then I hope that at least this puts to bed any idea of Wilf going. If they have retained a 20/25% sell-on fee then I think that is the difference between someone being able to afford him and not. Wilf angled for a huge 5-year deal last season, so he is not really in a strong position to complain and I hope that he is happy to stay. I imagine a club would have to offer an absolute bare minimum of £75 million given the clause and what we held out for with AWB.

As much as I'd love AWB to stay I still can't my head around £50m for an inexperienced rightback with no full England caps. If the reported wages are true then you can add about another £20m on top of that. Good luck to the lad as he is going to be under the microscope the moment he steps onto the pitch.

They simply would have calculated an expected fee and knocked off 25% of that from the fee for AWB.

It’s the same money just paid at a different time. This way we get the cash we need sooner.

Also maybe we never sell Zaha - a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

Edited by Maine Eagle (26 Jun 2019 1.08pm)

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Well, looks like it's definitely happening. I love watching AWB and I'm gutted that we won't see him achieve his full potential in a Palace shirt, but for a club in our situation, a £50 million right-back is something of a luxury.

Hope he does brilliantly at Utd but I'm already anticipating the press and their dreadful fans putting every little mistake under the microscope. AWB might wish he'd had another season to develop with us, but eventually I think he'll become one of the world's best.

I hope the recruitment team has been looking hard for a reliable replacement, and the management team realises what can be gained from trying out youth players every once in a while.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that a sell on fee is only for anything above what we paid?
So if we sell Wilf the first 15m will be in the pocket?