I'm at the point where i want us to stop pretending players can't be bought. From now in, if there's even whiff of interest for a player, i want us to come out and stick a stupid price on their head.

'If someone wants to buy Ndiaye, they'll need to pay £100m+. Players have been sold for that amount and in our view Illi is better than them'.

Instead we seem to quietly pretend players aren't for sale and then accept offers that are well below what we should be aiming for.

Even Garner for £65m. We should come out and say we value him higer than Anderson so we want a fee higher than he went for.