We’d be £40-50m better off once both deals are done and have an oven ready replacement - assuming Elliot’’s good.
Annoying as it is, this sort of strategy is necessary to get round the accountancy rules: 1. sell high, 2. having an integrated replacements within the club.
that’s not me wanting it to happen, just conscious we need to sell at a high price, when we can, to avoid the problems we’ve had this summer.