Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Well, when you look at the money we spent on, say, Flint and Cunningham (whose resale value must be a small fraction of the £10 million or so we paid for them), keeping Hughes and Lockyer, or even Demi Oshilaja, seems a pretty good option to me.
We released Hughes in 2008 and Lockyer in 2011. We can't hang on to every player who comes through the academy just in case they turn out to be good enough to be a squad player for us 10 years later.