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But a £10m profit and couple of seasons of a top player is better than the alternative, which is never getting the player at all. Nobody is arguing that we should give out release clauses in all situations. Nobody thinks it's sensible to give an 18 y/o from Ecuador one. But if we're in a...

Hmm. I think pretty much all the players we sign see us as a stepping stone

No idea if this is true, but we did it for Alexis.

We can't only sign players who have the chance of giving us a 1000% profit in 3 years time. I think we need to be more flexible than this. If we buy a player for £30m but with the proviso we have the chance of losing him in 12 to 18 months for £40m. Isn't that still good business? Of course...