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Can see why you'd say that and I would have thought keeping Vert would be a priority but based on his attitude and performances last season I can understand being open to selling if we get offered top many. I'm not suggesting he will definitely be sold but just telling you what I was told.
This is totally opinion:
If we need to generate cash to spend then who out of our current squad would generate most? After all, this has been ENIC's model at Spurs. So if we could sell Vert for £20m and buy Lovren for £15m what do you think levy would do?
With regards to Daws it may have more to do with his importance off the field as well as in the dressing room. We got rid of a lot if players who understood the PL last summer (Parker, Caulker, Hudd). These players also knew the club. Again this part is opinion as I don't honestly know why the club would rather keep him than sell.
Completely agree with you. In fact, your second paragraph (while not intending for you to comment on this example) is precisely my logic for why we would possibly sell Paulinho, not because I think he's a crap player as I've been accusing of believing while trying to point this out. If two sizable offers came in, one each for Paulinho and Vertonghen, given what we currently have and what we could acquire in terms of replacements with reasonable fees for each, I would still prefer Paulinho as the one selected if a "fund-generator" were to be used this summer.
I also agree on the bit about Daws. Somewhat similar to such a situation of Verts going over Daws, people were left baffled a couple weeks ago because Friedel was handed another contract, and in their "bewilderment" they didn't stop once to consider the why. These decisions are not as simple as an even-keel, "who's better?" There are an incredible amount of underlying factors, some more important than others that people have to take into account beyond how each player is simply performing on the pitch.
Cheers Yid1987, your input has been straight gold today.
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