At the risk of being a bit “NSC-ish” -
I’ve thought about this a bit provoked by a number of posts on Olise, Mitchell, Eze, Guehi etc, being only here for a year or two before being sold, plus some talking about a buy young, sell high strategy, and I’m not sure it’s really correct going forward.
There are two levels of selling club - those who lose players to mid table maybe established teams like Villa (Watkins, Buendia, Mings come to mind there) and those who lose them to CL clubs - Leicester with Mahrez and Maguire for example. The threads on Mitchell and co seem to assume we are in the first group, but I just don’t see it anymore
Of course, if City, Utd, Liverpool or any regular CL qualifying team come in, you would struggle to keep any player, like AWB and Utd. But teams outside that group? Every window some of our players were linked with Villa or WHU, etc etc, but I just don’t see that happening right now - although the longer term future is never certain. We will soon start our 10th year in the PL, have a manager that players clearly want to play for, have a Wembley date booked (3 in recent years actually), have players getting selected for England - all that surely takes clubs around us in the table out of the equation for transfers (unless they want to offer £50-60m for someone which is highly unlikely).
Of course financial wild cards like Newcastle can crop up - but they have massive work to do before they regularly (if ever) compete at the top. In reality though, I think the days of Everton or Villa or whoever being more attractive than little old Palace are gone for a while. Never for good of course, but I do think our current trajectory is one where our best talents stay unless Pep, Juergen etc come to call.
I’ve thought about this a bit provoked by a number of posts on Olise, Mitchell, Eze, Guehi etc, being only here for a year or two before being sold, plus some talking about a buy young, sell high strategy, and I’m not sure it’s really correct going forward.
There are two levels of selling club - those who lose players to mid table maybe established teams like Villa (Watkins, Buendia, Mings come to mind there) and those who lose them to CL clubs - Leicester with Mahrez and Maguire for example. The threads on Mitchell and co seem to assume we are in the first group, but I just don’t see it anymore
Of course, if City, Utd, Liverpool or any regular CL qualifying team come in, you would struggle to keep any player, like AWB and Utd. But teams outside that group? Every window some of our players were linked with Villa or WHU, etc etc, but I just don’t see that happening right now - although the longer term future is never certain. We will soon start our 10th year in the PL, have a manager that players clearly want to play for, have a Wembley date booked (3 in recent years actually), have players getting selected for England - all that surely takes clubs around us in the table out of the equation for transfers (unless they want to offer £50-60m for someone which is highly unlikely).
Of course financial wild cards like Newcastle can crop up - but they have massive work to do before they regularly (if ever) compete at the top. In reality though, I think the days of Everton or Villa or whoever being more attractive than little old Palace are gone for a while. Never for good of course, but I do think our current trajectory is one where our best talents stay unless Pep, Juergen etc come to call.
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