Barnes was a different era before we were losing 26 million per year.
Why reduce our chances of going up and increase the chance of another 26 million bill for a fee of peanuts ?
No, he has said that players will not be sold in January.
Usually he would then state that "every player has his price", but very, very tellingly not this time.
Of course ultra-silly money always wins, but no one would pay that for a player who is potentially free in 6 months time.
That is just semantically trying to misinterpret Tony.
You need to look at the way it was said, and the expression on his face.
It was was not a sneaky political answer.