He's 21 ffs. He isn't going to be near his prime for another 5 years. If you think he's worth 30Million now how much will he be worth in 5 years if he keeps improving?
It would be madness to sell him even this summer. The very earliest i would sell him would be 2012. Man i want to keep him so bad :/
Agree with this, if you were take our current squad 3 years down the line, I reckon
Krul
Enrique
Coloccini
Ben Arfa
Barton
Tiote
Carroll
is top 6 material. I don't think we'll have many problems with relegation in those years, so even if we slowly fill in the gaps over the next few years, I think we'll have a team that top players will want to come to, and to stay at.
That's what we really have to do. If Ashley really wants to be a success here/sell the club for a lot of money. He has to realise that by selling our best player we're never going to get better. If he can slowly improve the team we might actually do well, which means he can sell, if thats what he wants to do.