Buying and selling players is just a part of sports. It's going to happen. Now, I'm very willing to bet that we are the only professional sports team that despite being in the top quarter of the league consistently sacks our managers. By any standard, that is ludicrous.
Do you remember the halcyon Redknapp days, when our team preformed well, Redknapp knew how to manage a team and for 3 seasons and our turnover of players were small.
Of the team in 09/10 I felt we (the fanbase) had a stronger bond to our players.
09/10--------------------------------->14/15
Gomes - 6 years--------------->Lloris - 2 years
Bale - 6 years-------------> Vorm - 0 years
Kaboul - 5 years------------->Kaboul - 5 years
Bentley - 5 years ------------->Friedel - 3 years
Huddlestone - 8 years------>Vertonghen - 2 years
Lennon - 9 years------------->Lennon - 9 years
Jenas - 8 years------------->Chiriches - 1 year
Pavlyuchenko - 4 years--->Dier - 0 years
Palacios - 3 years---------- >Fazio - 0 years
Modric - 4 years-------------> Lamela - 1 year
Walker - 5 years-------------> Walker - 5 years
Crouch - 2 years-------------> Naughton - 5 years
Defoe - 9 years-------------> Davies - 0 years
Bassong - 3 years------------->Stamboul - 0 years
Dawson - 9 years-------------> Capoue - 1 year
Kranjcar - 3 years------------->Paulinho - 1 year
Corluka - 4 years------------->Dembele - 2 years
Cudicini - 3 years-------------> Bentaleb - 2 years
Rose - 7 years-------------> Rose - 7 years
King - 16 years------------->Eriksen - 1 year
Assou Ekotto - 8 years --->Mason - 6 years
Woodgate - 3 years--------> Townsend - 14 years
Keane - 9 years------------> Soldado - 1 year
--------------------------------------> Adebayor - 3 years
--------------------------------------> Kane - 5 years
--------------------------------------> Chadli 1 year
Total:
09/10= 139 years
14/15 = 77 years (Obviously this could increase over time, but even last summer people were (some still are) calling for Ade, Soldado, Lamela, Paulinho, Capoue, Chiriches, Chadli, Lennon to go)
If you do it on averages it becomes even starker
09/10 = 6.04 years per player
14/15 = 2.96 years per player
My point is that I feel less connected to the players which changes the feeling of going to WHL.