Well if that's the case I can see us getting far fewer players than we actually need in the coming years. Maybe we'll just be left with a small number of very very large ones.
I'd like to wish Sam luck, but that would be in effect wishing luck on Chelsea. Which I could never do.
And we'll have a replacement ready of course, and a replacement for that replacement, and so on because that's what we do.
But I reject the conclusion that this haemorrhaging of personnel...
Of course, you're right. We have replacements either in or out of the club lined up for these situations.
But it doesn't mean it's not a blow. Not least because we can't always get the replacement we want if they're not at the club.
But Ashworth hasn't agreed to go to Man Utd yet, and so the...