- Mar 18, 2005
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Absolutely. I agree.It doesn't matter how big you are, you will always end up with scenarios like this. Man Utd are one of the biggest clubs in the world. Ronaldo wanted to leave. Barca are arguably bigger, Neymar wanted to leave.
So you will always have situations such as these, in which case, the only way you win is to adequately replace. You cannot force a player to stay. Its detrimental both financially and on the field, as we are seeing now.
It's part of why I advocate us selling players if they want to leave and a bigger club comes in. Would rather take the hit of losing a good player and be labelled a small club than end up with players who don't want to be here.