I guess, but the other thing that disappoints me is us selling another home grown product before the Ewood faithful have really been able to enjoy them. Thanks to us locking Wharton into a 5-year contract, this should have been a Damien Duff situation, getting to see him really kick ass here before the big money move in his early 20s. Instead its a Phil Jones situation, a quick "here's what you could have watched" and then gone whilst still in his teens.
I hope its not a case of Wharton has started moaning about a move and we've just caved. How Daniel Levy dealt with Harry Kane should be the playbook for clubs on this sort of thing. It needs to stop being a heads we lose (don't tie a player into a long contract, so they leave for free), tails we lose (do tie them in, they moan, so we let them leave for a mediocre price). If the player signed the contract, that's on him and he's ours until we get an offer that's impossible to refuse. For me that's a £40m offer from the big 6, not an £18m one from Crystal Palace.
