the days where we had to sell before buying are behind us mate. we're not gonna sell meireles to finance other transfers.
but IF we sell him then it's probably because we'll make a nice profit on a player who's soon in his 30's.
Hope thats not true. They will be selling Gerrard too to make Fat profit.
We'd only sell a player to make profit if we needed the money more than the player. Gerrard is far more important to us than any fee we'd ever receive for him.
Meireles though, that's a different story. He could be replaced by anyone at the club who plays his position and we wouldn't really be any worse off. Some of you may disagree, but read on..
The problem with Meireles is that he's not "so amazing" that we'd turn down offers for him, and he's not young enough that we can look at profitting from him in the future. Getting rid of him now is the best thing for everyone for a number of reasons:
1) with our ever growing contingent of midfielders he'll be getting less games
2) he still has saleable value
3) he's nothing special
4) if we wait a year or 2 and his contract is rapidly running down, what sort of fee will we get for an average player in his thirties??
Goodbye Raul.
