I do get why we kept him, and the fans would of lost their shit if he had left for Liverpool in the summer.
After how they acted (Liverpool, unsure how public or in the news it was) with their tapping up, there’s no way we could have sold him.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, because we should...
Yep. It was truly awful.
We were lucky last season, the premier league as a whole was pretty poor. Same thing seems to be happening at Leicester if Twitter is anything to go by.
So many reasons.
Selling our best players year after year, would break us eventually.
Poor manager choices/style of football.
Van Dijk should of been sold in the summer imo. Bad atmosphere around the club with him being a pain apparently.
Poor transfer windows. 20m on a striker who’s bloody...
I’ve not read anything apart from the OP
I’d much rather us ( saints, stains, scummers etc. ) be in your position.
Yes, your run in is a nightmare, but we’re shit 2 or 3 winnable games? Lucky to get 1 in my opinion.