DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
Afaic I know and accept our position in the food chain and know that until we can pay the money our rivals do there's not much we can do about having players getting their heads turned - we could win cups and titles every season but as long as our players can get paid two/three times as much elsewhere, some of them will still want to leave - that's just how it is. Dortmund lose players to Munich even when they pip them to the title and if PSG wanted players from Monaco they could take them with ease, the only clubs which don't lose players to rivals are ones that can match them financially...
Yes, but we managed to prevent selling players domestically despite our status in the food chain - our last big sales were abroad, and it seemed a clever way to avoid strengthening domestic rivals for negligble losses on our end. That precedent has now been broken, so the domestic clubs are clamoring to be added to the list of players above us in the food chain that we are willing to sell to.
Winning trophies will help offset that *to a degree* - that's all I'm trying to say.