Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Oh, sure. But I'm simply defending the decision not to sell Sanchez. I wish we'd done similar with players in the past.
Right. But the more money than players problem has only recently become acute; now everybody is desperately hunting about for players to spend 50+million pounds apiece on. When we sold RvP, suitable replacements were readily available to us, hence our consistency over that period.

But now .. Well, imagine both you and your neighbour, whom you suspect has been eyeing up your missus, winning the pools on the same weekend