I'm Sheff Wed in 2016. In 2014 I signed Samir Carruthers (regen?) from Bolton for free, and a season later Pompey offered me 4.5mil plus a young striker called Tom Hunt, who was decent and seemed to have bags of potential.
Roll on a season and Carruthers hadn't played for Pompey. Hunt had played 22 times for me scoring only 3 goals, and was worth 2mil. Step in Man Utd with an enquiry, to which I answered 10mil, thinking they'd bugger off, as I wanted to keep him for a few more years to see how he developed. They bid 10mil, and I had made nearly 15mil from a crap midfielder and a young unproven striker.
Lovely.
Roll on a season and Carruthers hadn't played for Pompey. Hunt had played 22 times for me scoring only 3 goals, and was worth 2mil. Step in Man Utd with an enquiry, to which I answered 10mil, thinking they'd bugger off, as I wanted to keep him for a few more years to see how he developed. They bid 10mil, and I had made nearly 15mil from a crap midfielder and a young unproven striker.
Lovely.
