nottsblue wrote:Mase wrote:nottsblue wrote:Turns out if Spuds sign Porro for the £39m release we will get another £11.2M as part of the sell on clause.
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I’m assuming we thought he wouldn’t make it. Not sure why Spurs do if that’s the case. Possibly Pep saw his arse because Porro said Pep hadn’t been in contact whilst he was on loan.
Also when we sold him we had Walker as first choice RB. I think we either had Danilo or Cancelo as back up as well and we simply didn’t see him displacing those two, and getting half decent money with the potential for more with sell on clause (30%) was too good a deal to turn down
There are always gonna be a few players who with hindsight we maybe should have kept on or preserved with. But you can’t keep them all and out of all the 30 or more players we’ve sold from the academy in the last 5/6 years how many fall into the bracket of a mistake? There aren’t many. Three, four at a push?
That’s the risk you take with letting players go I guess. But up to now, overall, I think we are ahead
I think we’ll only know which ones were mistakes in the next 5 years mate. Not ever player will set the world on fire straight away, but I think this guy looked on par with Cancelo at least. A player that will likely leave this summer. We’re struggling at FB and have been playing players out of position there so makes it a bit weird how we didn’t even give him a crack. Unless this kid that’s onloan in France will come back this summer?