Besides, if you look at it there has only ever been one instance where selling a star player for a huge fee has not massively harmed the club: Zidane to Real.
Pretty much any other deal, be it Ronaldo, Bale, Cavani, Kaka, Suarez etc. all had severe adverse effects on the selling team.
Thats because the selling clubs handled their transfer planning very poorly.
There are ALSO good examples to show selling clubs have benefited from big sales.The best recent example is the Ibra-Barca deal.
Key here is having a proper and well calculated transfer strategy.
I dont know if you guys are trying to make it sound that Vidal is indispensible to the team,he is one of our most impt players ofcourse but TBF we've been coping well without Vidal for almost the entire year whr he dint play a lot of games in the 2nd half of last season too.
Hope ppl dont misunderstand my post,not suggesting we should sell Vidal here.Our first priority shud always be to retain our best players anyway BUT i also believe we would've been able to cope fairly fine with the loss of Vidal, in this case.
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I don't think selling Ronaldo had that much of an effect on United. They were still the best team in the EPL with Ferguson and I think they would've lost to Barca in the finals anyways.
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Also,Vidal is a WC player but he cant carry a team like Ronaldo or Suarez do/did.I dont get the comparisons tbh.