Levy knows exactly what he's doing.
As a general transfer policy, we don't sign older players for the exact reason that they have no resale value. It's the reason we very nearly didn't sign Parker at the start of the season, although Redknapp obviously stated a good case and we brought him in.
Nelsen and Saha were both free as far as i'm aware, so we pay them some small wages for a season whilst taking on board their experience. We don't sell them on but it doesn't matter because we've not paid for them as such.
As for looking at players outside the bigger clubs, look where that's got us in the past: Palacios (wasn't bad to start with but then went to shit), Bentley, Chimbonda, Bent, Bassong etc. Even from lesser teams abroad, we boast the likes of Rebrov, Hutton, Zokora, Postiga etc. Every single player there cost us more than £5m and was a flop, proof that buying players that have impressed at smaller clubs for over-inflated prices doesn't work.
Also, WE'RE NOT SELLING MODRIC.
As a general transfer policy, we don't sign older players for the exact reason that they have no resale value. It's the reason we very nearly didn't sign Parker at the start of the season, although Redknapp obviously stated a good case and we brought him in.
Nelsen and Saha were both free as far as i'm aware, so we pay them some small wages for a season whilst taking on board their experience. We don't sell them on but it doesn't matter because we've not paid for them as such.
As for looking at players outside the bigger clubs, look where that's got us in the past: Palacios (wasn't bad to start with but then went to shit), Bentley, Chimbonda, Bent, Bassong etc. Even from lesser teams abroad, we boast the likes of Rebrov, Hutton, Zokora, Postiga etc. Every single player there cost us more than £5m and was a flop, proof that buying players that have impressed at smaller clubs for over-inflated prices doesn't work.
Also, WE'RE NOT SELLING MODRIC.