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He would, and had done it before on principle. Due to amortisation and the fact that we paid £12m for him, his value on the balance sheet is less than £5m, so even £25m at the worst is a large profit
Surely a player is only as valuable as the price someone wants to pay. It reminds me of the many conversations overheard about house prices and how much they are worth 'on paper'. Great when prices are rocketing but when there is a downtown, as there has been post brexit, you have to take your losses .... though of course you may have made a real profit and the loss is only notional compared to what you might have got had you sols at a certain point in time.
So I would agree that even at £25m selling Toby would be a profit + him playing for over several years contributed to us having the best defence in the country and so finish higher than we had historically done without him. That in itself earned us more money so in fact it's all good news. If he has to go now then sure haggle to get the best deal you can but just accept the market sell and re-invest the money. Players come and go, even great players, but the club is what matters