The idea that he wouldn’t have accepted a sale in order to maximize his value as a free agent is of course utter bollocks proven very simply by the fact that he DID in fact accept a sale in the end.
Ah, fuck my memory..... You're right in that respect. However, it still doesn't change the basic dynamic that less contract left = lower fee and lower fee is likely to = more interest.
The trouble was that no market materialized for him in Summer 2019. Eriksen and Levy both were counting on him being off to Real or Barca for a hefty fee and they weren’t interested.
Well if the rumour mill is to believed RM refused to even pay 50m that summer.
But between Eriksen, his agent, and Levy there should have been enough candor to make clear in Summer 2018 that a new contract was not part of the equation and it was time to sell up.
Should have, yes.... Which begs the question, why wouldn't CE have just told Poch he wasn't interested.... We had clearly been chasing him on a new deal for some time.
As you suggest; it's hardly fitting of the Levy stereo-type to let an asset devalue without a fight. Which still says to me that CEs camp were coy and happy to let the deal run down rather than get priced out of his fancied move.
This emerging refrain that we couldn’t have sold our assets at peak value without upsetting the fans is so pathetic.
Not "pathetic"......
Why is what I said not "pathetic"? .......Because I didn't say we "couldn't" sell them; my point was that no-one was calling for it at the time, so anyone claiming smarts in 2/3 years later is being a hindsight warrior.
All the obvious voices were whining and paranoid about Levy selling off all of Poch's favourite toys throughout the whole project.... Except it never happened.... The only one that got sold was Walker who rather than balls deep in our title challenge in 2016/2017 spent the run in dreaming of a move to City.
Levy completely blew the Poch miracle, that’s all there is to it.
In the context of a convo about CE; what does that even mean?
Not gonna get dragged into a Wah-Levy epic... It's been done to death and if people want to deny the financial implications of of our stadium project kicking into gear as Poch's team was peaking.... I'm past arguing about it.