Some good points here - firstly couldn’t agree more with that first paragraph, if a club with relatively higher standing than yours (along with player interest / pressure) wants one of your top players, you’re almost resigned to getting the best deal. Just look at Fofana at Leicester.
On that note, for all his faults, Ashton wasn’t bad at that aspect (feel free to argue the player quality / market made it easy for him), so Semenyo or Scott, whoever, will be an interesting test for Gould / Pearson (No idea how involved he gets) in terms of the deal we receive…