Quote Originally Posted by LDG View Post
Been trying to read into this a bit more, and see if I can make any sense of it.

Pure speculation this, but I think he's talking about self-sustainability again, and that if we want to buy someone like Hazard for 30mil, then he has to fund it somehow, buy giving himself some cash through selling players, and balancing current contracts etc.

I think to him, it's not just black and white, i.e. you buy to improve the team. I think he genuinely trys to juggle everything in order to take into account everything to do with player costs, from resgistration through to ammortisation of contracts, through to player sales.

I think he's feeding a soundbite in to let people know he has to balance the books first in order to make that kind of purchase.

Dunno. Might be completely wrong, but it would fit in with the whole self-sustaining crap.
So where does the extra revenue from ticket sales and sponsorship go? They should be used to balance books not using player sales. If we're that hard up that its a struggle to be self sustaining, then sort out the sponsorship side of it. Get rid of fringe players earning £70k a week. How can we possibly be poorer than before our stadium move. Weren't we self sustaining then as well?