Interesting point on degree and circs. You're quite right that we will always be a selling club - even Leicester are after all. Serendipity perhaps but we appear to have timed our buying spree ideally this season with the market in the doldrums with COVID finances - it was a great time to be buying and quite the wrong time to be selling unless you had Ben White and a manic Arsenal board after your prime asset.

Arguably we have lost out on a Zaha windfall with his market value nothing where it was previously but as you point out Olise Eze Guehi are all very marketable "commodities" potentially. I rather fancy that the 4th name on the list is not Mitchell but Edouard should he continue on his current trajectory.

One point I'd add is that we are now perhaps edging closer to territory where sales become a greater threat. Part of this is driven by buying "higher risk higher reward" players such as those named as they are much more likely to attract big 6 suitors than the more journeymen types we have previously bought where the pool of suitors was much smaller. The other part is that all these players are on significantly lower salaries. Players move from ambition but also - quite naturally given the brevity of their career - for pay packets.

Interesting point on degree and circs. You're quite right that we will always be a selling club - even Leicester are after all. Serendipity perhaps but we appear to have timed our buying spree ideally this season with the market in the doldrums with COVID finances - it was a great time to be buying and quite the wrong time to be selling unless you had Ben White and a manic Arsenal board after your prime asset.

Arguably we have lost out on a Zaha windfall with his market value nothing where it was previously but as you point out Olise Eze Guehi are all very marketable "commodities" potentially. I rather fancy that the 4th name on the list is not Mitchell but Edouard should he continue on his current trajectory.

One point I'd add is that we are now perhaps edging closer to territory where sales become a greater threat. Part of this is driven by buying "higher risk higher reward" players such as those named as they are much more likely to attract big 6 suitors than the more journeymen types we have previously bought where the pool of suitors was much smaller. The other part is that all these players are on significantly lower salaries. Players move from ambition but also - quite naturally given the brevity of their career - for pay packets.

I am tea total, at least until 11am