It's easy with hindsight to look back and say we should have sold him last summer, we won't get £25m now, and we have an unhappy player on our hands.
We may have lost a good few million, we may yet lose a few million more.
But it was never about money. It was about taking a stance against so called big clubs who think they can just walk in and take our best players, especially our home grown ones. Peace is probably still livid about the Izzy Brown scenario.
It also sends a message to players like Odemwingie and Berahino who sign long term contracts and then want out, and sulk when it doesn't work like that.
To be fair to the players, Peace was at fault for not paying them the top money, strikers who score for fun like Odem and Bera were are very hard to find and replace, as we are finding to our cost now.
Then again the players were happy enough to sign their contracts or tey were advised to by people who represent them.