There is a lot to be impressed by this season, huge overhaul, complete change in playing style, performances, semi of FA cup etc. However, for me the single most impressive thing is the dramatic change in value of the playing squad.

The value of the squad on day 1 of the season must have surely risen by at least 4 times to the current value.

Mitchell, a product of the academy, having got 2 caps for England and based on the value of the likes of AWB and Chilwell, must be £50m +

Guehi bought for £21m and having had a great first season in prem and an England cap must be worth more than double what we paid.

Olise, bought for £8m and having performed incredibly with assist, goals and French U21 cap must be worth 4-5 times what we paid.

We have the likes of Edouard, Andersen, Mateta and Eze, who are all 25 and under and would have increased in value against what we paid for them.

We are getting to the point where, whilst we want to retain as many of our prospects as possible, we can now follow the Leicester model of selling one player for huge sums per season that then funds bringing in several more players that can both improve the team and be sold on for profit until the point that we are in a financial position to retain them and push on.

If we can continue to bring in these kind of players, we not only secure or future financially, but give ourselves a real chance at being a club that can genuinely one day challenge for trophies and the top 6.

I don't want to lose anyone this summer, however, if selling one of our prospects like Mitchell or Olise for huge money allows us to bring in 4-5 more similar prospects and gives us the time to allow our academy to develop and feed the squad in a few years time, then I'm all onboard.

Whilst it's all speculation, if an offer of say £50m came in for Mitchell or £60m for Olise, I would sell in a heartbeat with full confidence that for the first time in forever, we have a recruitment team that would then bring in 3-5 more players with that money that could then develop into players of a similar value.

Imagine selling Olise and then bringing in say Carvalho, Isaiah Jones, Djed Spence and a couple of others like Levi Covill or Bella-Kotchap with that money. They may not all make it but if two of them develop over the season to being £50-60m players each, we can then do it all again.

The future is exciting as far as I'm concerned!

I think the fact that we were quite happy to get shot of Van Aanholt showed how much faith they had in Mitchell. Must’ve given him a massive lift as well knowing we preferred him to an experienced international player

Edited by monkey (06 Apr 2022 6.50pm)

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Just start bringing the cranes in behind the main stand and its a full house!

It may be the Sun but I couldn't agree more with any of that.

1. John Textors money
2. Dougie and PVs use of it
3. PVs complete transformation, in style and attitude.
4. U23s and U18s doing well
5. Hope for and an Exciting future

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