But it may well affect their thinking when deciding to accept a bid or not; the "you would have to be an idiot to say no" ceiling would be higher.
For arguments sake, say we had a 50% sell on clause for Cucu last year. Suddenly a bid of £30m would mean us not quite breaking even with our share...
I always felt comforted by our loan army when we were flirting with relegation. I reckoned if we did go down we could lose a lot of first team players and still have a competitive Championship squad.
Victor was definitely one that contributed to that feeling. Of course now that we are one of...