Yeah, I think as fans we can understand the business side of things when it comes to selling players.Bluedylan1 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2026 5:17 pm There'll be justification for selling a player like Armstrong in the future, if you develop an academy like Chelsea and you've got 7 or 8 of these sellable assets. So the model actually makes sense.
But when he's the only one who's come through in years, the fans love him, he's clearly massively talented and with the historical trauma of Rooney etc, it would display a fundamental misunderstanding of the fanbase to sell him.
It would make the relationship with the fans beyond repair, almost no matter what we do on the pitch in the future.
Still hopeful it won't happen, and would assume Moyes is advising very strongly against it.
There’s been no uproar in selling Illiman. We all understand it’s a great move for him, and we’re making a big profit on a player we signed for £15m. We’re maxing what we could ever get for him.
If in the future a club lashed £80m down for Armstrong the reaction would be similar. Is what it is, but it works for everyone.
This doesn’t work for us at all in this current moment. He’s going to be worth double what we’re selling him for, we’re short in that area of the pitch, and we’re struggling to sign players.
The optics of it are off the charts bad and as you say, the board won’t ever recover from it.
