One of our few world-class players in living memory and we can't seem to wait to get rid of him.
Yeah, it's mental.
This always gets said when people discuss someone leaving but people are only discussing it because they know how shit the financial restrictions are so are just getting their head around why the sale may happen and who could come in. If you did a poll you could guarantee well over 90% actually wouldn't want to sell him and they know that whoever comes in will be a downgrade.
It's not just that though, look through the comments and there's plenty that think this is the right time for the club to move on. The finance part doesn't even make much sense, we're not getting more than about £15m for him at most and a keeper ready to come in and be first choice is likely to cost at least that much, they might start on a lower wage but if they do the job even close to as well as him they'd be asking for a better deal within 18months so we might, at most, save £4-5m in wages over a couple of seasons, which will be eaten up by agent fees, etc anyway.
The only good reason to let him go is that he wants to leave and we've agreed to allow it if a team meets our valuation. There is no footballing reason for it, he's the current first choice for a team with a very real chance of winning a 4th major international trophy with him in goal and he's just played a big part in us winning a first trophy for 30years and easily has another couple of years at the top level in him.
