The way to avoid having to spend serious money in order to get promoted and be the recipient of serious money is to produce your own players of high value. When they come through the youth team they also won’t be on daft wages.
If you then flog then before you’ve had any use out of them, where does it leave you?
It leaves you spending even more money on wages and diluting the quality of your team.
At some point you have to dig your heals in.
You sell to a Brentford, Southampton or Ipswich, all of whom would be a good bet to finish in the bottom 5, you just make it harder to pass them.
It’s not so different to having Ronaldo or Messi in their prime. You could sell them for daft money, but you’d only replace them with inferior players.
Same here.
We have to be a bit more savvy as a team but I believe we have the best midfield in the division.
Sell Anel, replace him with a better defender. But don’t break something that could see us go up.