Berkshire Blade
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Even being on the premier league wouldn't make us a destination club. World class training set up, world class city, world class stadium and European football would. All of that is unlikely in the short term!Not suggesting any club is a forever destination club but many clubs are where are player is happy to stay and extend when it’s going well.
In our current state even with PL promotion our best players saw it as more desirable to get out rather than stay and negotiate a new deal, probably because they don’t see us as a long term PL club.
If we can hang on this season and do a Brentford, Villa et Al transformation our better players will see it as desirable to stay and extend their contracts unless we can sell at a premium. At the moment we have to take what we can get, prime example is Maguire step, step £80m worlds highest defender fee.