Anton_Berg
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I don't think the club wanted to sell him, I think they felt forced to or they'd lose him for nothing.
Wood was in the last year of his contract and allegedly refused to sign a new one unless he was guaranteed a starting place this season.
Maybe he's shown enough at Swansea to prove the club wrong for not agreeing to that, I've not watched them outside of our game against them where I thought he struggled, but I don't think he'd shown anywhere near enough in our cup matches or a failed loan spell to be demanding that at 20 years old.
I'd have preferred he'd stayed, but I wouldn't have had him starting regularly for us this season.
No player should be guaranteed games. It is galling, however, when they leave and then 'grow'. It should be a whole lot easier to sign players already at the club than going to the transfer market.