It's the million pound that I find nonsense.
Iv no doubt they probably did hope that one day we could command a decent fee for Pears with him being English, young etc but when do we sell first team players for as little as that, regular starters I mean
We paid £500k or close too for Pears so for me it is nonsense that he is being played to make a tiny profit.And made a loss on Steele, so this model of buying young English goalkeepers to make a profit on them certainly isn't working if that was/is the plan
Pears played so much because the alternatives were worse(apart from the weird spell when Jdt kept him in over Kaminski)
If the club have bought worse than Pears or a keeper that it's gonna take months to get up to speed then serious questions need to be asked(I know they wouldn't be answered) and if Toth doesn't work out and it turns out it was Benson who chose both him and Whalstedt, then he should be getting sacked (again it won't happen)
The owners do sanction sales for big players for fees less than they are worth, but it is very rare we are selling first team lads for fees like a million quid