Mate; you Can hardly hold Chelsea up as a great example. They sold Kevin De Bruyne and Juan Mata, but i get your point...
We don't know how good Asensio would be for the club, but should he turn out to be a World Class player then the money than Real are demanding would look more favorable, but lets see what they are willing to take first before we judge...
But having said that we knew to look further afield, South American countries for the Bragins
Oh they've all let good players go they perhaps shouldn't have, but yes Chelsea perhaps more than the others. One could definitely argue that that may have been more the influence of the manager than club. But buying promising young players and selling for profit (even many who have barely, or at all, played for first team, has served them well financially. We could do a much better job at that then them, because we have plenty of room for some rotational fresh blood, plus our system can make the right types of players look extremely dangerous.
And you're right, we don't know how great he'll be yet. But when not a 180 mil buying club. Not yet. And we're definitely not one that spends that for a prospect. Unless we're talking about Mbappe, because he IS the real deal! Asensio's real value is more like 70-90 mil. Personally, if I managed Liverpool, I probably wouldn't even pay that at this stage. But I obviously wouldn't feel totally disappointed in them for securing him for such a price. Just think there are better value targets out there likely to work harder in our system.
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