I agree about selling players.
The good thing is that we won’t have many players to sell. Most players we do end up selling will be young players on relatively low wages or potentially elite players were contract situation may drive a sale.
Those situations feel much more conducive to being able to find buyers than trying to sell squad fodder who are on high wages and long contracts. Some of the other big clubs in the league are n this situation and I think they’ll find it hard to shift unwanted high wage earners.
The other aspect is that PSR concerns means there will be an acute need for sales at other clubs. Either to come in line with PSR or free up funds for purchases. Not necessarily just at small clubs. We probably won’t have this concern, allowing us be relaxed about selling players but also maybe in a position to take advantage of other clubs when looking to buy.
We typically don't pursue this route, but I'm wondering if we could do a cheeky loan-to-buy for some of the players at Chelsea or Barcelona (although most of their players don't want to leave). It's a long-shot but if they have a player with the right profile who hasn't been playing (at Chelsea, it might be the club's incompetence as much as anything else), maybe it's worth a punt.
I suppose the best success stories (Salah, KDB) are when they left, went to other top leagues, and proved themselves before us/City bought them. They weren't directly purchased from Chelsea, but maybe there's a player there that's not going to get playing time and/or are hard to shift, and we can take advantage somehow.
