United's Struggles to Sell Players for Profit

There's this sort of talk that United really struggled to make profit from selling players. They buy players in, they keep them for too longer than they sell them at a loss. The only time they're really going to be making a profit on a player is if that player is suddenly of interest to rail Madrid or Barcelona and wants to go there. Normally, they probably are just selling players who have been relatively speaking because they've been flops. I think that's a fair criticism, but it is hard for the club to sell a player. City sold James Trafford for 14 million up front last year; Gavin Bazzoonu for 12 million,. That's two Academy Keepers who never