People are saying this without bringing into context that our sales went poor when we hired people like Paratici to do this role
When it was literally just Levy, we were selling crap players for big money (e.g. Wimmer, Bentaleb, Mason, Chadli) and people were meme'ing it. We bought Stambouli (one of the worst midfielders we've signed) and managed to sell him back to PSG for 50% more than we paid, back then.
In more recent times though, regardless of who people want to point it at, we got £15m for Emerson Royale, which is a similar level or sale to Johnson (% recouped), except Royal proved he wasn't good enough for this league. We got £20m for Skipp, who has probably lost 80% of that value since.
We even made a profit on Bergwijn