There aren't that many teams that are willing to pay 6-7 million salaries to players in general, so I do think moving them is quite difficult. Letting Sandro go for free would be a loss on the books, I'm almost certain the management prefers to have him for one more year over making a loss on him. No way we would let Rabiot walk for free while he still has a contract here. Unless we get decent offers for them, they are going to stay here until their contracts run out.
And what you say about Rabiot is my point exactly, we're holding onto him as if he's some sort of big asset that's worth 20 or 30m, at the same time knowing fully well that no one will pay him the salary he asks and give us a transfer fee, we're never going to get that 20m+ offer for Rabiot. And that somehow makes it smart to pay him 7m / year and suffer until his contract runs out instead of replacing him with free agents like Calhanoglu or Pjanic last summer or Brozovic or Kessie this summer or sign a younger player like Locatelli on 1/3 of the wages, which helps cover the transfer fee.
The over valuation our mgmt have for some of our players just drives me mad.

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