Hang on? Have I got this right? Are you suggesting that you'd rather we had DIEGO COSTA than Sam Baldock or Craig Mackail Smith?
You really can't buy that kind of devastating insight.
It reinforces it. Leo doing well = add ons achieved = a further £2m this season. £10.5m for a 28 year old, unproven striker is incredible business. If you are prepared to see it as purely business, of course.
You are wrong. It makes perfect sense, and is how football works. You either trust your management team to make the right calls, or you have the wrong people. Sometimes (not always) it IS the right decision to cash in on a player and reinvest.
Take Burnley for example. Over the last two years...
Depends on the potential fee, and who you could get with the money. Austin, Rhodes and Ings are all better footballers than Leo, would command similar fees, and are respectively 3, 4 and 6 years younger.