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Agree that any fee for them would be a positive but I also wouldn't want to be subsidising a large portion of their wages either if they moved elsewhere, again, it just eats into what we can offer other players.
It also depends if we will remain under an embargo next season as well, meaning we wouldn't be able to spend money on players again and would be restricted to what we can offer in terms of wages. Given the fact we'd end up with so many players leaving, I can imagine it would be far more lenient next season than this season.
Also, their wages wouldn't fund 6-8 L1 players wages, unless you were talking bottom L1 clubs' wages, which we would want to avoid I'm sure.
No way I'd accept a deal that didn't get them off the wage bill completely
Which is exactly my point, we end up keeping them on our wage bill. It wouldn't be a bad thing per say, we'd get to keep 3 players who were too good for L1 around and hopefully see us get the goals necessary for promotion, but if it doesn't work like that, then it leaves us with a problem. As teams like Sunderland, Ipswich and likely Sheff Wednesday have encountered recently.
As you stated above, their wages are probably equivalent to 2-4 L1 players' salaries as well, on average anyway. So it's a case of either keep those 3 around potentially and have a smaller squad of sell them on, hopefully with someone paying all of their wages and recruit potentially up to 6 other players. I wouldn't quite describe it as a "lose-lose" scenario, as both options have it's positives, but both could work out badly for us as well.
It's 3 talented players. It's not an issue.
They either provide quality or the room and cash to bring in more than just replacements.
The issue is having many players on £20k plus, especially poor performers. Three, all of whom should eat L1 alive, is fine