Crofts and Holla are clearly not good enough to warm our bench at the moment. JFC is very likely a better player than Bridcutt - certainly more potential at his age - and as for Ince: I met the man-mountain that he already is yesterday at the Young Seagulls and he is clearly built for the Prem...
That's pedantic because that's not the point I was making.
And even accepting your point - and I wouldn't quite call the difference 'huge' - it would have made more sense to give him another contract so that we had an asset to sell later, rather than let him walk off a free agent to our most...
I take your point but I still think our first team now (from a fully fit squad) would obliterate Poyet's best 11.
For the first time in decades, we're looking like a team that can mix it with the best.
We're not 'hitting the playoffs'; we're looking like a team that can win this league.