If in your opening games you cant seem to defendas a team then selling your best performing central defender so far this season doesnt sound like the most intelligent move. It may make sense financially but the fans arent benefiting from good financial moves.
I think it would be a huge risk, I think selling Pinto would also to be honest having not seen the German kid and with Marshall not looking like a right back. Just wouldn't surprise me if either of them went because of the contract situation, not that I want them to go.
To be honest I'm completely confused by the entire project now, and lots of decisions (including the Middleton and Ramsay releases and selling Rudd for £1m, and spending £1m on James Husband, and giving Russell Martin a new contract),but we'll see what happens.... at the end of the day we all want what we perceive to be 'progress' and finishing higher in the league constitutes that. I haven't got too much belief at the moment though, we've got a squad full of Farke's German speaking players.... where do we go from here if we change manager? Does it have to be a German?
I actually don't really enjoy the lack of transparency over the various decisions we make, including those above. It feels like Husband was a Webber signing for example, but Zimmermann was clearly a Farke signing. Who do we blame or credit for poor and good transfer business? Keep seeing people calling for Farke's head, but its really difficult to know what conditions he is operating under and how much input he is having into what squad he has at his disposal to try and work with, expressed concerns several times about player departures.
I would have assumed that the Maddison and Murphy sales would have straightened us out financially but clearly not, I suppose from Webber's point of view he sees Pinto and Klose as being perhaps £5m in cash that we won't get if they leave on free transfers to other clubs (which they can sign for in advance in January, so selling in January not really an option or at least not in our hands),and £5m is a lot of money to a Championship side which is still having to pay deadwood like Naismith and Jarvis, but It feels like we take a hell of a lot of big risks.... selling Rudd for £1m and replacing with a keeper who had never kicked a ball was a big risk which didn't back fire, but one of these days one of these risks will come back to slap us hard in the face and selling Klose could be the one?
Farke, the fall guy if this all goes wrong, is clearly not going to want to lose Klose at this point in the season is he? Then having to integrate a replacement without a pre-season who could end up struggling like Franke. Yet he'd be the one blamed and facing the chop if we end up in the relegation zone, its just confusing being a Norwich fan these days. I was hoping that the point at which we can stop being a selling club would the point at which we can start moving forward, but are we there yet or not? Do we need those 4 high earners off the payroll next summer before we reach that point? Just so many ifs and buts.