This isn’t a win win situation, this is a win win win situation. Let’s say we sell Ben to Arsenal for £50m, we insert a fat sell on fee, so in a year or two when a decent Champions League team take him from Arsenal we get another fat pay day.
Played 7 games, won 3, lost 3 and drew 1 but went through on penalties. Panama, Tunisia and Sweden were the footballing giants that England toppled. We got massively lucky.
If you want your centre back to be in the mould of Shane Duffy then he did ok, if you want your centre back to also be a football player and not a clumsy oaf then he’s simply not good enough.