No because the manager had decided he wasn't going to use him as often in the future.
And that could well be the case here again, especially as a player who has been mediocre at best seems to be demanding to play at a specific position. As the Moreno case shows, sometimes a player being used frequently says more about the lack of depth in the squad than his actual importance to the team.
Assuming it is £100k, which I doubt, then it's a possble extra £65k a week (£3.3M) a year. From the clubs moneyball perspective - how much is a new £100k per year centre mid going to cost in wages and transfer?
I don't think Emre Can has improved at all since he arrived. So one could say a player of similar quality would be whatever he cost in transfer fee (£8m?) and £35k wages (knowing the transfer market is far from efficient so those are conjectures at best), offset by whatever Can's transfer fee would be.
Getting a central midfielder who in the current market makes around £100k, however, should mean actually improving on Can and not simply signing a player of a similar level. In that case - it would probably cost more, but I thought we cared about winning, not accounting?
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