Please explain how I'm committed save suicide with my transfers?
The first thing you have to bear in mind is that the club are paying over 2 million a month in loan repayments so we were taking a huge financial battering.
The next thing to consider is that Baines and Mirallas both complained they wanted Champions League football and didn't stop moaning away - so the decision was to sell them for a combined 43 million (up-front lump sum) or let them rot in the reserves, complaining and eating the wage bill.
Gibson, Hibbert, Alcaraz, Heitinga and Vellios were all not being played and asked to leave so I thought it was only fair - several of them were on big wages and, again, we received a decent sum of money for Gibson.
And Barkley, well; he was getting some playing time from the bench - but it's hard to fit him in with Osman, Pienaar, McCarthy, Deulofeu and others all on form in similar positions to that which Barkley plays. I decided instead of stunting his progression, I'd send him on loan to get some quality consistent football. Celtic offered to take him till the end of the season and regard him as a key team member - so my thinking was that by the time he arrives back, he'll fit in better as Osman and Pienaar will be another year old whilst we'll have lost Deulofeu. It's not as though I've permanently lost Barkley - it's just so he can get more playing time because I do intend to use him.
