My love lasts as long as their 'performance'.
I've had players on 35T teams that I've never sold - but thats because when the time came for them to go I'd do a takeover, to get another couple and start the 'star player cultivation' all over again.Although on 1 team I had a 3* slow training ST in starting team that just kept scoring - he lasted 8 seasons until I abandoned them - he was much less than 1* by then but still got a goal every other game towards the end against 4* competition.
Sometimes loyalty is rewarded by blind loyalty is rarely good. Loyalty for performance is a fair trade.
Edit: Just noticed 22yo Steve Nicol, Buffs' left back, is now on 205 appearances in his 5th Season at the Club. He might make another, maybe even 2 as sub but I'm pretty sure he'll be cast out and forgotten in the not to distant future since he's already operating in the shadow of new kid Andy Roberston.
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