Can someone explain to me why KDH and Maresca leaving was beneficial for financial reasons?
Firstly, weren’t the issues regarding PSR concerning our prior stint in the league? Secondly, if we did need the money, then our transfer business didn’t really reflect that. Couldn’t we have (hypothetically) kept both KDH and Maresca, and simply not signed Skipps, Edouard, and one of Ayew or DCR? Similarly, we could’ve sold Kristiansen to Bologna and done some mixture of the above. Skipps only cost a little bit less than KDH and offers pretty much 0 footballing value. None of it made any financial sense at the time and still doesn’t. I suppose my ultimate point is that, once again, we’ve gone out to sign players who most of us could’ve predicted would add very little quality, players that will now be on good wages and hard to shift in the championship. KDH didn’t want to leave and was one of our best players. So to replace him with Skipp and co at cost makes very little sense.