He’s the best football chairman in world football in my view.
But there are still football laws of physics which can’t be denied indefinitely. If we continue to sell our best players, inevitably the recruitment team will run out of rabbits to pull out of hats. They’ve done an incredible job...
To me the model we use is likely to end in a Southampton like outcome in the coming years. I can’t think of a club ever who’s consistently sold players for £100+m profit per year and continued to unearth and integrate teenagers of the same quality over a large number of seasons. Every club I can...