Why would any young player ever come here? The only reason Kean stayed a little while is because he is homegrown. We are that club that signs a young player, introduces them, gives them a squad number and then sells them in the same transfer window. It’s no wonder de Ligt wanted a release clause.
If he leaves without a buy back option we are stupid as even if he doesnt become a Juve type of player we could easily get him back and sell on for more $
I personally dont believe in him but I do believe we can get much more than 40M if we play our cards right...
Its not even 40m up front which makes it worse. Its an initial 29m with add-ons which could potentially rise to 40m over this year. If we're to be stupid and sacrifice this talent then at least get a good chunk out of him now so that we could invest it into a top quality player other than Icunti and lukaku.
There were so many attempts made to renew his contract but I don't why it didn't materialize which left us with no option but to sell him or lose him for free next year