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Originally Posted by joejoe1337
Yeah, but look at Bale for a great example of holding on to players and having their value go through the roof after another monster season.
I feel like when you're 18 years old, playing for Monaco and have absurd stats that are going to be probably unsustainable to reproduce is a better time to cash in than say the example of Bale. It's nearly impossible to reach a value that high at his age so my logic tends to be if you know you're going to sell him at some point and his value is close to ceiling, sell him.
He's getting a lot of spotlight because he's deep in the champions league and is in a great team scoring all the goals but next season some players might leave, he might find himself in a worse situation in a less attacking team where numbers won't follow and without CL spotlight/chance of winning the L1. Plus, it's Monaco an extra season of your 19 years old prospect can't be worth that much. You're huge dog to win the CL/L1 and you're probably locked in that top 3 that goes to the CL. It's not like Spurs where if you keep Bale and he produces that's worth a lot of money.
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Lyon held onto him because he injured his ACL and was out for 8 months.
They didn't sell him in the summer despite his value being huge at that time and ended up doing his ACL in September but he wasn't going. Injuries are part of the equation when accounting for when to sell. A bit of bad luck and your value get quartered