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But Neymar was young, had good stats and had proved himself at Barca when they sold him for massive profit. Sounds like money ball in your definition. Could say the same for Utd with Ronald too.

Plenty of players go to teams because they're young and good, have good stats and then end up being sold on for a profit. Maybe it's all money ball, maybe not but it goes on every where so to label just us doing it as money ball is a little off don't you think?

So why was Coutinho sold to Barca?

Come on now. Lets not ruin the money ball stick for him.

I think the difference being we've made a habit of it, compared to United or Barcelona - however this looks to have changed (hopefully)with Coutinho staying.

All clubs sell players and I'm not sure it's really a habit. I'm sure when we bought Suarez or Sterling the plan wasn't to develop them to sell them. We just weren't in a position to keep either at the time.

The same will be with Keita and Mane when we won't be in the position to keep them because a big club that wins stuff comes calling.

It might happen with Kane at Spurs too. Happened a lot to Spurs over the years with Bale and Modric and now Walker and maybe Rose. Losing players to the top top clubs like Real, Barca and the moneybags of Utd, City is inevitable regardless of the club. It's when we lose all our top players to West Brom and the like the we need to worry a lot.

But we kept Phil (for how long?) and are getting Keita so we can't be too bad. Add Klopps love child to the defence if he still thinks he's the only one better than we have and we might not do too bad.

It's inevitable because over the years it's been allowed to become that way,sick of not too bad.

So how could we have not allowed it when we're not as rich as these clubs? FSG get a lot of stick and rightly so most of the time but the tot started long before them.

We were told that we could compete with everyone,remember that?