Look at where Everton finished between 1989 and 2004. Look at where they’ve finished since 2005. The club has not had a pot to piss into for decades and the Rooney sale kept us afloat as a club while Moyes was able to knit together a better and more cohesive squad where consistency was the watchword.

Our stance is mainly reasonable because he is a young player with four years left on his contract - you know, the legally binding document that ties the asset to the owner - and Everton don't want to sell him. That's the best argument.

No, it’s not, and that’s something our stateside cousins need to get their heads around. Unless someone comes in and buys Everton, our best chance for success is to retain our best players, blunder into the top four or win a domestic cup, gamble (and win) on the next transfer window and then consolidate our position.

Woah - Everton built for the future with the Wayne Rooney cash. We became a much more stable club by using his sale proceeds.

In your opinion. He’s already better than David Luiz, who Chelsea sold for £50m. Players are worth what a club is prepared to pay for them. Whether they get value for money is something that can only be assessed once they’ve moved on. It’s arbitrary, it reflects a free market and people who say “he’s not worth xyz”…

Pathetic. Sorry, but this is laughable. You don’t become a good side by selling your good players to good clubs. What - we sell him, buy two good players with the proceeds, they play well, city and United come in and take one each off our collective hands. Then what? We buy players, they’re good, arsenal sign them?