The issue we found ourselves in five years ago was our assets were Cabaye, Sakho, Townsend, Benteke, Van Aanholt etc. All perfectly good players but none of them we could make a profit on. We ended up letting them all go for free. We werent an attractive proposition for young players who saw us a club that didnt sell and didnt particularly play good football. If we had got relegated we would have been in big trouble.
With this new model even if we end up selling an asset to a top six club every year then every player worth their salt in The Championship will look at us as an attractive proposition to further there career. Just like how we've come the club that Chelsea know they can send a player with international pedigree too to develop (Reuben Loftus-Cheek, Gallagher and Guehi).
Given we're going to lose Gallagher and Kouyate this summer I imagine we will be trying to sign Zaha and Olise on new contracts. If we lose one of them I'm not too concerned as it will mean more game time for Eze or Edourard. Plus bringing in a Brennan Johnson for competition would be sweet business. Whilst somebody should be getting a good deal for Michael Olise, 30m flip on an 8m signing after six months of football is incredible business. If use that money on say Djed Spence and Brennan Johnson the future still looks pretty good.
Guehi won't be going anywhere for at least another 12 months. He knows his best chance to play for England is to keep playing and he's really progressed since becoming the captain.