Bournemouth making an absolute killing on player sales. They looked in trouble at one stage but by my reckoning they will have made around £95m if they let King go.
Makes me think we really got done over in the sales we made over the last 2 seasons. Shows why it's worth speculating on Diangana though.
I think it is a combination of Bournemouth being somewhat fortunate and ourselves being the victim of earlier decisions which greatly reduced our income.
Looking at Bournemouth sales
Ake £40m which was sought of defined by the buy back clause that was in the contract and there was interest from the only 2 clubs that might pay £40m i.e. Chelsea and Man City. He goes anywhere else and they don't get anything like £40m. Compare that to Evans who while attracted interest from Man City was sold to Leicester for his release clause of £4m.
Wilson £20m from Newcastle while is considerably less than they were asking 12 months ago is pretty decent considering his age injury record and patchy form in the last year. The irony he is of a similar age and ability level as Rondon who Newcastle baulked at paying a £16m release clause for two windows ago.
Ramsdale £18m For a rooky keeper with some obvious flaws in his game okay he is young so will improve but Sheffield United have paid way too much. Contrast with the £2.8m we got for Foster which is low but reflects where Foster was in his career at the time and probably at the very least fair on a player who I think only had one year on his contract at the time but had done well for the club for a number of years.
We aren't comparing apples with apples here but our fees if they weren't constrained by release clauses would have been more and Bournemouth have been somewhat fortunate.